Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 09:35:35 +0200 From: Chris Delnooz <chris@rhialto.cjb.net> To: Web Razter <webrazter@yahoo.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: StartX or graphical login Message-ID: <01050809353500.00228@rhialto> In-Reply-To: <20010507172344.7556.qmail@web4304.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20010507172344.7556.qmail@web4304.mail.yahoo.com>
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It is said that on Monday 07 May 2001 19:23, Web Razter has spoken: > I (once, I swear!) tried Linux Mandrake 7.0 and had a > choice of a graphical login or regular login (althogh > how I got from one to the other I don't remember). Can > this be done in FreeBSD? > > If not, how do I get startx to run after the system > has booted and I login from the shell? > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message in a startup script (i'm not yet familiar with the bsd ones, i'm a linux user migrating to BSD) start the xdm or (if you use kde) kdm daemon, then you'll have a true graphical login.. a line like: <path-to-kde>/bin/kdm or /usr/local/bin/xdm should be enough.. read the xdm and/or kdm for configuring the daemons (which can be tricky sometimes, at least under linux it can ;-p Chris Delnooz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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