From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 18:44:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA11749 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:44:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.213]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA11731 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:44:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA00239; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:44:32 -0700 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:44:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Yingjun (Ian) He" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199606232301.QAA00348@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 23 Jun 1996, Yingjun (Ian) He wrote: > I am running FreeBSD2.1 with X-window. How can I get the graphics login window > instead of the text mode login prompt when I boot up the system or when I > logout? Have xdm start when your system boots. One way is to put it in /etc/ttys; the other is to start xdm from rc.local. Instructions for the first one are included in the install instructions for X I believe. I personally use the second method. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major