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Date:      Fri, 23 Aug 2002 20:20:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
To:        Anthony Abby <anthonyabby@aplusdata.com>
Cc:        Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>, <kevin09gol@hotmail.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: got a question for you
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208232018380.18345-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <1030148031.3594.41.camel@laptop.aplusdata.com>

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On 23 Aug 2002, Anthony Abby wrote:
> Date: 23 Aug 2002 20:13:50 -0400
> From: Anthony Abby <anthonyabby@aplusdata.com>
> To: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
> Cc: kevin09gol@hotmail.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: got a question for you
> 
> > 	Hello!  Please quote the exact line that it stops functioning.
> > 
> > 	FreeBSD doesn't automatically boot up into a graphical user
> > 	interface.
> 
> 
> That's true but I was looking for a way to do that anyway, and I ran
> across a post to some mailing list in Google that said you can drop a
> file called X.sh file in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and it should boot into
> XDM/KDM when you boot.  On my system it still doesn't for some
> reason.....
> 
> 
> Anthony
> 

You need to use xdm to enable a graphical login. The Handbooks cover this 
in detail:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html

Note there are also kdm (from KDE) and gdm (from GNOME) and wdm (from 
WindowMaker) and probably several others. The Handbook covers 3 of them.

JB

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