From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 12:30:43 2003 Return-Path: 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 1688E16A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:30:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mxsf06.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf06.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C1343FA3 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:30:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) Received: from moe.howse.homeunix.net (jackson-66-168-145-25.midtn.chartertn.net [66.168.145.25]) hB4KG63C074750; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:16:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) From: Charles Howse To: Payne , freebsd-questions Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 14:16:05 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <3FCF85D5.6060705@magidesign.com> In-Reply-To: <3FCF85D5.6060705@magidesign.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312041416.05686.chowse@charter.net> Subject: Re: Xdm/Kdm/Gmd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:30:43 -0000 On Thursday 04 December 2003 01:07 pm, Payne wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the help early, I am wanting to have either xdm/kdm/gdm to > start once my system it up, how can I do this? Also which is best? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html This will detail the process for you. As to which is best, that's only valid if you are running Gnome AND KDE. I'm not familiar with gdm, but kdm is bundled w/ KDE, and xdm is bundled w/ XFree86. -- Thanks, Charles http://howse.homeunix.net:8080 Random Murphy's Law: An easily-understood, workable falsehood is more useful than a complex, incompreshensible truth.