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To: hey@tuns.ca (Yingjun (Ian) He)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:17:45 +0200 (GMT)
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Yingjun (Ian) He wrote:
> I am running FreeBSD2.1 with X-window. How can I get the graphics login window
> instead of the text mode login prompt when I boot up the system or when I
> logout?

Add the following to /etc/rc.local:

echo -n " xdm"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon &

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