From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 11 10:52:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9405C47E0 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:52:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA02898; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:19:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:19:49 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jerry Lei Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: about xdm Message-ID: <20000211111948.J17536@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000211182541.61776.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000211182541.61776.qmail@hotmail.com>; from tylei@hotmail.com on Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 10:25:41AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jerry Lei [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