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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 07:00:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Starting up to an X login -- XDM ???
To: "Mark A. Hummel" <mhumm2@mchsi.com>,
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A work-around:

I just add the command 'startx' as the last line in
the user's shell configuration files (.profile for sh
and bash users) of users who prefer to start in X. 
That way:

1.  xdm is not running when not needed;
2.  users who prefer the command line can start in
command line mode; and
3.  users who prefer X can go straight to X.

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould

--- "Mark A. Hummel" <mhumm2@mchsi.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've asked this same question, for the most part,
> and I was referred to the
> same reference and it still does not work the way I
> want or think it should.
> When I start xdm, an xterm (not KDE) login comes up
> and throws me into the
> following loop:
> 
> 1. fbsd login (text based as normal)
> 2. xterm login
> 3. kde starts automatically
> 4. logout of kde
> 5. xterm login screen appears
> 6. login again
> 7. goto step 5
> 
> I'm still resigned to use startx to get into kde,
> but I too would like an
> automated process.  3 years ago and 2 hard drives, I
> was given a script by
> one of the people on this mailing list which worked
> wonderfully.  Now it
> seems no one knows about this and just tells me to
> use the xdm boot up method
> but to replace xdm with kdm.  That only throws
> errors.
> 
> The script was called by one of the startup files,
> "rc.conf" I think.  It was
> only 4 or 5 lines long and one of the lines paused
> the script for 5 or 10
> seconds to allow something else to happen before
> starting kde and its login
> screen.  I'm sorry I can't be more specific than
> that, but once you have a
> script that works, I suppose one tends to take it
> for granted.
> 
> Mark
> 
> Jonathan Arnold wrote:
> 
> > >Hi everyone, I was wondering how I would go about
> starting my machine to
> > >go an X logon upon boot, as Ive setup X.
> >
> > See the FAQ, man:
> >
> >
>
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#XDM-BOOT
> > --
> > Jonathan Arnold     (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org)
> > Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog:
> >      http://jdarnold.tzo.com/FreeBSD
> >
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