Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 17:34:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Wes Santee <wsantee@wsantee.oz.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: xdm with pcvt Message-ID: <199509180034.RAA00200@wsantee.oz.net>
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I'm trying to keep an xdm session open on screen 4 at all times so I don't have to keep starting X whenever I login. However, I don't want the xdm login screen to be the default since I usually prefer character mode screens. I'm using the pcvt console driver and in rc.local I'm doing this: /usr/sbin/scon -c 3 # go to screen 4 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -daemon # fire up xdm sleep 10 # give xdm some time to start /usr/sbin/scon -c 0 # come back to preferred login screen When I reboot, I see xdm start, come up with the graphical login, then switch back to screen 1. However, if I hit CTRL+ALT+F4, the xdm screen is gone and I'm met with just a blank (character mode) screen. If I login as root, kill the process referred to as (xdm), then switch back to screen 4, xdm resets, comes up, and I never have a problem with it. Is there anyway to keep the xdm session of screen 4 happy during bootup? This is a -stable box, BTW. Cheers, -- ( -Wes Santee | You're never dead 'til you're ) ( wsantee@wsantee.oz.net (preferred) | out of quarters. --InSoc ) ( wsantee@oz.net (backup) \------------------------------ ) ( http://www.oz.net/~wsantee finger wsantee@oz.net for PGP info )
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