From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 17 02:59:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71DDE16A402 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:59:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rocque.m@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3105713C45A for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:59:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rocque.m@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so1821536wxc for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:59:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MD9+Kp7dV0A/xkdeZVCpibg9U/dZduI2z2D2v/hF7zikqK4lLkVFcNarti0gt4JEc1XHik/6EMVH6pwrMB0uK40moGgA/vu/02WhO2O9g3gcpaoYbKwwtCEtdMtiDxKn8zuaIXZQUEI0psM+NNpvMONo+ilXD9LNN39NnOYQjCM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dceFXx80TZIeybp6++NF9QalVdJoAq4SZOCvRehWqtiO5RONpogFozYhEcj2Ch6TLUUnD0H82K0w6KlYd4Wg6NCcGXL9WBs487QBp7eF5K+w/mWv510uOeq1edABFcGnyRUkK9P5KnrahIKrhlG270b1QLFV/xHBUrVoFz8V3d0= Received: by 10.90.105.20 with SMTP id d20mr5790775agc.1176777022306; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:30:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.118.18 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:30:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3c71dfeb0704161930w62bdcbbh5c1d95e545b82ff2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:30:22 -0400 From: "Marc Rocque" To: "Jim Priovolos" In-Reply-To: <263817.55408.qm@web56412.mail.re3.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <263817.55408.qm@web56412.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GUI X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:59:19 -0000 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 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" >