From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 16:21:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AEB11065672 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 16:21:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonicy@otenet.gr) Received: from echidna.otenet.gr (echidna.otenet.gr [83.235.69.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 981238FC19 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 16:20:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aiolos.otenet.gr (aiolos.otenet.gr [83.235.67.30]) by echidna.otenet.gr (ESMTP) with ESMTP; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:02:23 +0300 (EEST) Received: from [192.168.0.150] (athedsl-4364788.home.otenet.gr [79.130.9.228]) by aiolos.otenet.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id p96G2K5U010719; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:02:23 +0300 Message-ID: <4E8DD10E.9030409@otenet.gr> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:02:22 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: n dhert References: <4E8DADC9.2000902@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X on Xterminals but not on console X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:21:00 -0000 On 6/10/2011 6:24 μμ, n dhert wrote: > Hi, > In your labserver, do you have a graphical login window at your labserver or > not ? > I don't want a graphical login, since I can't get anymore to the login > prompt via Ctrl Alt F1 No graphical login. My lab server stops at the console login prompt. > In KDM, the config directory is /usr/local/share/config/kdm for kdm window > manager, there is no > Xservers file, and I can't see any file .. there are Xaccess, Xwilling, > Xstartup, Xreset, Xsession files > and a large kdmrc file. There are no man pages for kdm, kdm-bin, Xaccess, > etc... > > I tried setting ServerCmd="" instead of ServerCmd=/usr/local/bin/X -br in > the kdmrc file ... > Now I only have /usr/local/bin/kdm-bin running, not /usr/local/bin/X > Don't really know how KDM handles this. You could however - as a last resort - disable KDM and use xdm as your login manager. It is a bit "rough" (see login screens here http://www.flickr.com/photos/sonic2000gr/5033230929/in/set-72157625053818002) but it can start up any GUI using a simple .xsession file (xdm is not installed along with X but it is a very small port, x11/xdm). > Am I right to believe the primary role of a local X server (local= on > labserver) is to have a graphical environment on that labserver machine ? > Yes, absolutely. There is no need to run a GUI on the lab server. It's a waste of CPU cycles and memory.