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Date:      Wed, 5 Oct 2011 19:59:00 +0200
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        n dhert <ndhertbsd@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: X on Xterminals but not on console
Message-ID:  <20111005175859.GA1010@tiny>
In-Reply-To: <44r52rto54.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <CAEFCw4sK9rNvmb9rcM3GD4AJixBO29VGyLxq65wQrx=%2BOCmNGA@mail.gmail.com> <44r52rto54.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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El día Wednesday, October 05, 2011 a las 12:10:47PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert escribió:

> n dhert <ndhertbsd@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > FreeBSD-8.2 with Xorg:
> > Is there a way one can specify that your never have X on the console (just
> > the login: prompt)
> > but still have X on any other X-windows termnal (an KDM login window) and
> > graphical environment
> 
> Sure.  It's all in how you configure KDM.
> 
> In xdm it's set up in the access file; 
> I wouldn't be surprised if kdm were the same.

You have login: on console, login, create a file ~/.xinitrc with the
lines:

twm &
xterm

and then you just say: startx and X11 will come up; ofc you could remove
software or create some dirty xorg.conf file which X11 will not let come up;

	matthias
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