Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 09:49:16 -0500 From: Erik Rothwell <erothwell@callgtn.com> To: Marc W <mwlist@lanfear.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: graphical login screen! Message-ID: <3AA4F8EC.9CC635F5@callgtn.com> References: <200103060508.VAA61640@akira.lanfear.com>
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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
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