From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 3 11: 8:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9241114BD3 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:08:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA01938; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:08:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA03674; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:08:17 -0600 Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:08:17 -0600 Message-Id: <199909031808.MAA03674@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Luoqi Chen Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: start xdm on a particular vty In-Reply-To: <199909031803.OAA04921@lor.watermarkgroup.com> References: <199909031803.OAA04921@lor.watermarkgroup.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>> There have been discussions about the xdm entry /etc/ttys does not >>> guarantee the X server being started on the particular vty. So I >>> wrote a shell script to explicitly tell xdm to start X server on a >>> specific vty. >> >> I *like* it. I think you should share it with the XFree86 folks, and >> I think this would be great to have in the base installation (after >> proper testing of course...). > Do you know the appropriate channel to contact the XFree86 folks? Try rich@FreeBSD.org, who is supposedly the FreeBSD contact for XFree86. > > However, does this work with non-XFree86 X servers? (Or, maybe you > > can't test that...) > > > I've only tested it with XFree86. Xig's document indicates it also supports > the vtxx option (but I am unable to test it). I don't know anything about > servers from other vendors. Great. I'll see if I can try it out at home on my XIG server... Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message