From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 13 18: 1:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C603537B401 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:01:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4516743E3B for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:01:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7E10djN034192; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:00:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g7E10cCL034189; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:00:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) X-Authentication-Warning: alpha.yumyumyum.org: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:00:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver To: Parker Brown Cc: BSDQuestions Subject: Re: Display Managers and X11 4 (ala FreeBSD 4.6) In-Reply-To: <3D5988B7.CEADF5FE@charter.net> Message-ID: <20020813205936.S34169-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 > I certainly do not intend to refute you, Kenneth, but I've been a > subscriber since 2.1.5, and I've never (prior to 4.6) seen documention > that said *something* to the effect that, as opposed to X11 3, you now > have to install a "wrapper" if you want to startx X11 with startx rather > than with xdm. There has been a change somehow. I just don't recall > encountering the name xdm before. xdm has been a part of X since I started using FreeBSD. I have books that date back to X11R5, which is pre XFree86, that explain how to configure xdm. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message