Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 09:21:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> To: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> Cc: David Nugent <davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XF86 & fvwm Problem, Help? (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960918092005.12810A-100000@garion.hq.ferg.com> In-Reply-To: <199609181223.HAA11484@freeside.fc.net>
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On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Jerry Dunham wrote: > David Nugent babbled: > > >> to the others using the <ctrl><Alt><f[1-3]>. By way of note... you > > >> can switch back to the x console using <alt><f4>. > > I tried this here this morning, and it doesn't work. The <ctl><alt> > <F1> part worked to get me back to a text console, but then I was never > able to return to the X session. I tried it a couple of times to make > sure I was doing as instructed, but without success. Apparently SOME- > thing must be configured differently to make this work. Hmmm.. somthing on your machine then.. it works fine here on all my Fbsd boxes.. and I have 2.0 2.0.5 2.1 and 2.1.5... so somthing on that end. > > > >What's unique about console 3? Why should I start xdm there? > > > > The X server selects the first "free" vt to run on. > > Makes sense. > > > > Is there some way of starting xdm there automatically upon > > > system boot? > > > > Sure. Start it from /etc/rc.local in daemon mode, or put it into > > your /etc/ttys and start it up on any vt. > > So what would I put in either of those places to make it work, and > what are the relative advantages and disadvantage of the two? I > assume that in ttys I turn ttyv3 off, but what else? I cannot speak for the ttys way.. but for rc.local echo -n ' xdm' ; /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm & -branson ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?
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