Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 23:18:45 +1000 From: Jim Mock <jim@phrantic.phear.net> To: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X questions Message-ID: <199809151315.GAA07937@phear.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980915070533.16832A-100000@derby.jsp.umontre al.ca> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809142328370.7091-100000@phear.net>
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At 07:16 AM 9/15/98 -0400, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: >On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Jim Mock wrote: > >> I've got 2.2.7-RELEASE set up on my box at home running X.. it seems >> to be running ok when I load it up, but I'm having some trouble >> getting X to start from alt-f4 (ttyv3). I'm using afterstep as my >> window manager and I have the following in /etc/ttys.. >> >> # Virtual terminals >> ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure >> ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure >> ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/afterstep" xterm on secure > >hmmm... I don't think you can start afterstep this way! > >> I've also tried it with xdm -nodaemon instead of afterstep, but >> neither work. > >Ah... this would be better: > >console none unknown off secure ># >ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ># Virtual terminals >ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure >ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure >ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > >This is what I use. > >> My syslog spits out this message ever minute or two.. >> >> login: Sep 16 init:getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv3, >> sleeping 30 secs > >I had such a message when I tried to put xdm on ttyv1 instead of ttyv3 >When I put it back the way it is now, (see below) it stopped complaining. >And I could access xdm on Ctrl-Alt-F2 instead of -F4... > >> I'm guessing that may be root of the problem. How do I fix that? As >> for afterstep, the only way I can get into it is by su'ing, starting >> xdm, logging in, and at the prompt typing afterstep to start it. Once >> I do that it starts fine.. I'm sending this message from it now, but >> there's gotta be a way to set it to be my default window manager... >> I'm obviously missing someing here... > >Indeed! I would like so much to be able toupgrade my webpage... I wrote a >handful of info about this, and can't get it up to the server... > >The base principle is that you can run X by default, or not. If you want >every user on your computer to run X, use xdm. Else use 'startx', seee the >manpage. The basic idea is that, in both cases you have a dot-file which >will tell X what to run. If you use xdm, the file is called .xsession , >and will look like this: > After I sent the first message, I decided to mess around with .xinitrc and seem to have gotten that problem figured out... I also changed /etc/ttys back to xdm -nodaemon and that looks good too.. thanks for the reply :) Now I've got a major problem trying to compile xpm, xfmail, and xv. How do I generate the templates, etc. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config ? I've read man page after man page and either I'm blind, or I'm not looking in the right places.. I eventually got sick of it and decided to copy all of the config dir from a machine that it was on to my box here at home and tried again.. I still get a _TON_ of errors, so I'm guessing that won't work. I'd list the errors, but it'd take you guys 3 days to read through all of em.. *sigh*... I'm lost :-( Jim --- |=> Jim Mock - SysAdmin - Webmaster <=| |=> Phear Dot Net | KidzHaven <=| |=> Web Site Design & Hosting Services <=| |=> email: jim@phrantic.phear.net <=| |=> web: http://www.phear.net/ <=| |=> web. http://www.kidzhaven.com/ <=| --- |=> Powered by FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org/ <=| --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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