From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 20 17:58:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF14437B400 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:58:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B9CE43E3B for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:58:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8260B29024 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 20:57:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 20:57:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: FreeBSD LIST Subject: X vs xdm vs startkde Message-ID: <20020720205236.G30024-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm on a new install of FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE (on a different HD since boot0cfg killed the MBR of my newer HD). For some reason, now running "X -xf86config ~/XFree86.config" works now, but all it does is run the X server on /dev/ttyv8 -- as from /etc/ttys: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure My question is: Once I have the grey background and letter X for a cursor, how can I either xlogin or have my ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession files get sourced (they both contain just one line saying "startkde")? That is... is there a keystroke or mouse click to run xterms and such?! Thanks major major magnanimously hugely phattic-bim-batickly! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message