Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:39:46 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, "Alok K. Dhir" <adhir@worldbank.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disappearing keyboard Message-ID: <199804221639.KAA04130@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpemyq6qmv.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980421220801.1501B-100000@shadow.worldbank.org> <199804220516.OAA00391@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <xzpemyq6qmv.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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> > AFAIK, there are four ways to start xdm and avoid conflicts with getty. > > > > 1. Specify xdm in /etc/ttys. If you want to run xdm in ttyv3, you write: > > > > ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > > This is evil and should never have been suggested in the docs. Why? I contend this is the best way, and have yet to be proven wrong. (Joerg and I had it out publically/privately already on this, so I'm feeling pretty good about my odds. :) > The Right Way (tm) to start X or xdm is to put a shell script in > /usr/local/etc/rc.d which Does the Deed. It will work, no questions > asked. I have something similar to this: So is doing in /etc/ttys. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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