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Subject: Re: automatically starting gnome-2.10
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On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 18:12, Hèrvé Simplice van der Eijk wrote:
> Hallo FreeBSD users
> 
> I just install gnome-2.10 on my freebsd 5.4 release machine, and it's 
> working,
> but I want it to start automatically afther rebooting the system.
> I dont want to start it typen startx each time.
> 
> please can somebody tell me how can i start gnome2.10 automatically
> or what is the syntax in /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> thank you.

Hiya,

To do this you need to use a display manager to handle logging on. See
the handbook:

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

Rob