Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:19:49 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Jerry Lei <tylei@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: about xdm Message-ID: <20000211111948.J17536@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000211182541.61776.qmail@hotmail.com>; from tylei@hotmail.com on Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 10:25:41AM -0800 References: <20000211182541.61776.qmail@hotmail.com>
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* Jerry Lei <tylei@hotmail.com> [000211 10:53] wrote: > Hi, I followed the instruction in the installation guide about test my > desktop manager. > > xdm -nodaemon & > > I entered a X desktop which prompts with my host name and ask me enter user > IP and password. But after I enter the userID and password. There is another > dialog box ask me choose a session. I don't have any session to choose > except "default/fail safe" or "cancel". Both choice put me still under same > situation - asking my userID and password. I even try to ctrl-C to kill the > process. but it can't work and I cannot leave the desktop manager. What can > I do to jump out this situation? Thanks. you need a .xsession file for xdm to work generally. you can kill the X server with "ctrl+alt+backspace" this is almost any user book on X. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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