From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 18 18:43:23 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA24599 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 18:43:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from nexgen.HiWAAY.net (max14-159.HiWAAY.net [206.104.17.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA24589 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 18:43:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from nexgen.HiWAAY.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nexgen.HiWAAY.net (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA09916 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 20:28:35 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199612190228.UAA09916@nexgen.HiWAAY.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD as an X Terminal? From: dkelly@HiWAAY.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 20:28:35 -0600 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Somewhere I thought I saw a reference about using FreeBSD as an X Terminal. Today at work the boss was at home, sick, so when the opportunity presented itself, the mice played. So today we installed FreeBSD on a poor unsuspecting user who has been having no end of trouble with a DOS based X server. Installed FreeBSD 2.1.6R and XF8632 on a Gateway 486DX33 w/ 8M. Xdm presents a login dialog (as expected) but also includes a console window at the bottom. We'd really like to get rid of that console window. How? But even better than getting rid of the console window on xdm's login, we'd much rather have an X chooser displayed where the user could select the system she wishes to login, Just The Way She Always Did It Before. "man xdm" says: For X terminals that do not offer a menu of hosts to get display management from, xdm can collect willing hosts and run the chooser program to offer the user a menu. For X displays attached to a host, this step is typically not used, as the local host does the display management. How can I be "non-typical" and display the chooser on the local host? (Presumably one of the choices will be the local host.)