Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:09:07 -0400 From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com> To: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>, Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net> Cc: BSDQuestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Display Managers and X11 4 (ala FreeBSD 4.6) Message-ID: <1WA8U73TO6ZNH651WGFOIHBQNKQNMJ.3d599193@sparky> In-Reply-To: <3D5988B7.CEADF5FE@charter.net>
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8/13/2002 6:31:19 PM, Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net> wrote: >Kenneth Culver wrote: > >> > gdm (Gnome) is not so bad only in that it returns statements that imply >> > that I must find a list somewhere to edit by some sort of rules. >> > >> > I guess I don't understand *dm, which I *think* is somehow new with X11 >> > 4. >> > >> > Got any hints? I really want to try both KDE (which is working, but >> > I've got to figure out how to modify it to my tastes) and gnome. >> > >> the display managers have been around for a LOOONG time. anyway, there is >> documentation for all of the display managers sitting around on the web, >> just search for it. It's not really hard to set these things up. >> >> Ken >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. > >-- >Pb Umm, Parker - you install wrapper (/usr/ports/x11/wrapper) if you want to startx as a user other than root and don't want to have to fool with permissions, security, etc., to do it. Every time I've installed XFree from ports I've gotten a message to that effect. (I started with 4.1 or 4.2, so that would be what, about 2 years?) Xdm (X display manager?) is a graphical login. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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