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 /* * John Bleichert * syborg@stny.rr.com * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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