From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 7:40:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E48D37B400 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 07:40:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from max ([24.61.57.241]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020408144038.NQOR21252.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@max> for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:40:38 +0000 Message-ID: <200204081040480896.051BD21F@mail.attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <3CB1A401.291FA2F7@mchsi.com> References: <3CB19142.A39B2D61@mchsi.com> <200204080934180628.04DEEF23@mail.attbi.com> <3CB1A401.291FA2F7@mchsi.com> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 10:40:48 -0400 Reply-To: jdarnold@buddydog.org From: "Jonathan Arnold" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Startx, xdm, and kdm Danger??? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 want KDE to automatically run at system boot up and present me with its >native login screen before taking the user to the KDE desktop. I want to >accomplish this in the most effective and efficient way possible. Then you want to run kdm, not xdm. Again, just do what the handbook says for running xdm and replace it with the path to kdm, and you're all set. >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html And as it is just the login (or display) manager, you can still run= whatever window GUI you want. In fact, kdm h a nice drop down to let you select at login time which one to run, although I never played with it. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://jdarnold.tzo.com/FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message