Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:30:22 -0400 From: "Marc Rocque" <rocque.m@gmail.com> To: "Jim Priovolos" <jim1976us@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GUI Message-ID: <3c71dfeb0704161930w62bdcbbh5c1d95e545b82ff2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <263817.55408.qm@web56412.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <263817.55408.qm@web56412.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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Hi Jim, Check out the freebsd handbook chapter 5. It has a lot of good tips. To get a gui login add the line gdm_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf. Not sure about the xterm thing. Here's a link to the handbook section: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html Regards, Marc On 4/16/07, Jim Priovolos <jim1976us@yahoo.com> wrote: > Any tips on how to make FreeBSD start with a GUI login screen? > > I chose gnome and X-Windows in the install and they run in a weird limited way if I start them up after logining in to a command line. But it doesn't start in a way that allows a login to a GUI as the initial login screen. > > Plus, when I try to execute xterm I get Can't open display even though I've set DISPLAY and display environment variables to :0.0 and localhost:0.0 and ip_address_of_box:0.0. > > Any help will be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Jim > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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