From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 13 15:31:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A49F137B400 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:31:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dc-mx11.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx11.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC5F243E6E for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:31:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phbrown@charter.net) Received: from [24.205.252.58] (HELO charter.net) by dc-mx11.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 58993824; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:31:34 -0400 Message-ID: <3D5988B7.CEADF5FE@charter.net> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:31:19 -0700 From: Parker Brown X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kenneth Culver Cc: BSDQuestions Subject: Re: Display Managers and X11 4 (ala FreeBSD 4.6) References: <20020813175506.N32167-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I certainly do not intend to refute you, Kenneth, but I've been a subscriber since 2.1.5, and I've never (prior to 4.6) seen documention that said *something* to the effect that, as opposed to X11 3, you now have to install a "wrapper" if you want to startx X11 with startx rather than with xdm. There has been a change somehow. I just don't recall encountering the name xdm before. Kenneth Culver wrote: > > gdm (Gnome) is not so bad only in that it returns statements that imply > > that I must find a list somewhere to edit by some sort of rules. > > > > I guess I don't understand *dm, which I *think* is somehow new with X11 > > 4. > > > > Got any hints? I really want to try both KDE (which is working, but > > I've got to figure out how to modify it to my tastes) and gnome. > > > the display managers have been around for a LOOONG time. anyway, there is > documentation for all of the display managers sitting around on the web, > just search for it. It's not really hard to set these things up. > > Ken -- Pb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message