From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 14:46:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0706F106564A for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:46:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@shute.org.uk) Received: from atmail-10.bnguk.net (atmail-10.bnguk.net [80.74.253.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2CCB8FC27 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:46:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 77-44-105-82.xdsl.murphx.net ([77.44.105.82] helo=orange.esperance-linux.co.uk) by atmail-10.bnguk.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NnYnJ-0001Vr-SE; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:46:26 +0000 Received: by orange.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B22B74AC20; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:46:25 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:46:25 +0000 From: Frank Shute To: Programmer In Training Message-ID: <20100305144625.GA43010@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Programmer In Training , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100305002520.c06d7d20.freebsd@edvax.de> <4B9048F9.1060907@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B9048F9.1060907@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 amd64 X-Organisation: 'shute.org.uk' Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg, xdm, desktop env X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:46:39 -0000 On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 05:57:45PM -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: > > On 03/04/10 17:43, Warren Block wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Polytropon wrote: > > >> As far as I know, earlier X installations came with the > >> tab window manager - twm. This doesn't seem to be the case > >> anymore. > > > > twm is still enabled by default as part of the x11/xorg-apps port. > > I can confirm that, and I too have problems with XDM despite having > 'exec wmaker' in my .xinitrc in my home directory (sometimes XDM will > kick me out to the login, sometimes it will just take me to a blank > session wherein I can do nothing). I'd like to use XDM and have it start > on boot so I'm interested in the outcome of this. If you read the manpage for xdm(1) you will see that the script that is run on login is ~/.xsession Try putting "exec wmaker" in there. To run xdm from boot, you have to edit /etc/ttys and then: # kill -HUP 1 Look at this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html