Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 10:27:30 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Antoine Kallab <antoine@kallab.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about XDM Message-ID: <44fvlhuwx9.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <CAL2Oafx5tQ-raQgNfa-ycJVF-%2BtCKR5LO36KoEkUUViFGjxyMA@mail.gmail.com> (Antoine Kallab's message of "Sun, 13 Apr 2014 07:46:13 -0400") References: <CAL2Oafx5tQ-raQgNfa-ycJVF-%2BtCKR5LO36KoEkUUViFGjxyMA@mail.gmail.com>
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Antoine Kallab <antoine@kallab.com> writes: > I am trying to set up XDM. I want it to drop me in to a minimal TWM session > after I log in. Right now, it just flashes the screen and puts me back at > the login window. > From what I read in the handbook, there are a few configuration files in > /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm that I need to change to get it to sing and dance in > the way I want it to. Not the best way for something as simple as what you want to do. > If I remember correctly, it was Xsession that controlled what happened > after a user logs in. > Right now it is just an if/then loop that looks like it runs > /usr/local/bin/xsm. Is that whole thing necessary? Can't I just tell it to > run TWM? Yes. If you look at that script some more, it only runs xsm if you don't have a .xsession file in your home directory. Creating such a file with contents as simple as "exec twm" will get you into a session with twm. As far as documentation, the FreeBSD Handbook covers this reasonably well, although I don't think it covers twm specifically. See the section on starting Gnome for an example.
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