From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 21 14:32:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA19102 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:32:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19037 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:31:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA29723; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:29:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:29:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Beaudoin, Jean-Marc" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Auto starting /usr/X11R6/bin/startx when logging in In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Beaudoin, Jean-Marc wrote: > Good day, > > Currently in my login script (.cshrc) I have an alias to start xwindows > (xwin). > > I tried to have /usr/X11R6/bin/startx executed within the .cshrc script but > always got an error on xinit. > > How can I have xwindows started automaticaly when a specific user logs in? Why not run X all the time? Start xdm in /etc/rc.local, and you'll be prompted with a graphical Login: prompt. The only drawback to this is that you have to copy your .xinitrc's to .xsession's if you want them to start correctly. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message