From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 6 6:49:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wdc.callgtn.com (wdc.callgtn.com [209.47.57.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E71537B719 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 06:49:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erothwell@callgtn.com) Received: from callgtn.com [24.114.251.145] by wdc.callgtn.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.04) id A8709C0222; Tue, 06 Mar 2001 09:47:12 -0500 Message-ID: <3AA4F8EC.9CC635F5@callgtn.com> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 09:49:16 -0500 From: Erik Rothwell Reply-To: erothwell@callgtn.com Organization: xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxx X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc W , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: graphical login screen! References: <200103060508.VAA61640@akira.lanfear.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marc W wrote: > > > > how can i setup a graphical login screen instead of the usual > > login screen? is it possible? can xwindows handle it? > > > > look at /etc/ttys. There's already a commented out line for xdm in > there, and if you want to use something zippier, such as kdm or gdm, > they're not much harder. Unless you want to have multiple graphical login screens. Has anyone accomplished this with gdm for instance? Instead of 8 virtual consoles, I'd rather have 4 graphical login prompts and 4 text-based ones... but, I've never been able to make it work correctly. I get hundreds of X errors and some stuff doesn't work... Any luck out there? Erik. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message