From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 2:43:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C9D37B420 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 02:43:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from max ([24.61.57.241]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020402104327.CFLI1147.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@max>; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:43:27 +0000 Message-ID: <200204020543330432.0309FC3C@mail.attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <20020401222647.H712-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> References: <20020401222647.H712-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 05:43:33 -0500 Reply-To: jdarnold@buddydog.org From: "Jonathan Arnold" To: "Peter Leftwich" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XF86 4.2.0 /etc/ttys ? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure # Virtual terminals ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure #ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" kterm off secure You can read about it in a couple of places: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#XDM-BOOT You can read about my trials and tribulations trying to get xdm/gdm/kdm running in yesterday's entry in my weblog (see .sig). >And what's all this I hear about CTRL-Alt-F# to change from console to X? When you are in at a console, Alt-F# switches to that console. When you are in X, Ctrl-Alt-F# switches to that console, with the caveat being that, in my case for example, F9 is ttyv8, the "X console". So whenever I swap to there, I go into my X environment. >And what's this I hear about using wrapper if you are non-root? Once I think in a normal, effective install, this all happens automagically. >the startx script or the XFree86 binary is run from the command line, is >the user taken automatically into a GUI environment, or must the user then >*change* to the virtual console/screen on which the X-server is running? When you do startx, you jump right into the X console. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://jdarnold.tzo.com/FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message