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Date:      Wed, 29 Dec 2004 02:37:55 +0000
From:      Benjamin Sobotta <mayday@gmx.net>
To:        andrei <admin@zeyas.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: quick help ...
Message-ID:  <1104287874.561.10.camel@rr>
In-Reply-To: <WorldClient-F200412281834.AA34400002@zeyas.com>
References:  <WorldClient-F200412281834.AA34400002@zeyas.com>

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Hi!

1. Well instead of pressing enter you can let the timeout occur.
Standard is 10 seconds. If this is still too long add the following line
to /boot/loader.conf:

autoboot_delay=SECONDS

However I would not go too short here, since you might want to able to
go to i.e. single user mode.

Btw while your at it you can also set

loader_color=yes

in that file. Looks nicer. Whatever...

2. If I understand that right you want a graphical login right from the
start?! To do this edit the file /etc/ttys. In the line of your login
manager like xdm or kdm make sure it's says "on", like:

ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   on  secure

3. I dont know what you did with Xsession or Xsetup_0 (I left mine
default) but if you want your user andrei to use KDE simply add

exec startkde

to his

.xinitrc. That should do the job.

HTH

Cheers,

Ben

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 23:34, andrei wrote:
> Hi guys .... i was able to get the kde installed and i must say ... was 
> beyound my expectations ... but the only thing that i was unable to 
> get/understand is: 
> 1. When i restart my computer i get a screen with 7 options ... i just 
> press enter for the defaul and it enters FreeBSD ... do i have to do 
> that every time i restart or there is a quicker way? 
> 2. I don't get a logon screen i still have to log into root or andrei 
> and use startx (since i couldn't find sessions in login manager (under 
> system administration). 
> 3. My user account which is andrei doesn't have a Gui (kde since is the 
> only one installed and the only one that i'll use. ... i have modified 
> the Xsession (added just kde) and Xsetup_0 
> (added /usr/local/bin/kdmdesktop) and ttys (changed the xdm to kdm) ... 
>  I appreciate all the help given and hopefully after getting the user to 
> work i'll be able to figure thinks out b myself/research more) ... Keep 
> up the good work (and on a personal note does gates use a *nix platform 
> in his house with all that shit going on there? ... i mean hell .. with 
> the chip installed for personal prefference the toilet might flush and 
> splash him) Sorry.  ... thank you   
> 
> 
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