From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu May 9 11:40:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF16B37B410 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 11:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g49Ie9S80345; Thu, 9 May 2002 11:40:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 11:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200205091840.g49Ie9S80345@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Dmitry Morozovsky Subject: Re: misc/37863: Configuration of X corrupts screen, and install lacks wrapper. Reply-To: Dmitry Morozovsky Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR misc/37863; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Makoto Matsushita Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/37863: Configuration of X corrupts screen, and install lacks wrapper. Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 22:37:00 +0400 (MSD) On Thu, 9 May 2002, Makoto Matsushita wrote: MM> However, some users does *not* want to install wrapper since they MM> doesn't use startx. It would be better that MM> MM> * If you want to install Xwrapper, do it yourself. sysinstall MM> does have a menu for installing packages. MM> * When installing XFree86 package, a pop-up message "if you MM> want to start X with startx(1), please install wrapper MM> program from package." is shown. MM> MM> How do you think about this? Well, then what about adding additional checkbox with the comment like [ ] xwrapper Needed for startx script, not with xdm Furthermore, another checkbox may be added to enable xdm, with the following action: And auto-comment xdm line in /etc/ttys if it is checked, and uncomment otherwise. I suppose it is more consistent. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message