From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 21:05:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1243A16A4CF for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:05:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9225D43D58 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:05:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:01:28 -0500 Message-ID: <412A5BFC.5040506@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:05:00 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marcel.lautenbach" References: <116429367.20040823224855@xtsy.de> In-Reply-To: <116429367.20040823224855@xtsy.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Aug 2004 21:01:29.0182 (UTC) FILETIME=[5C49DFE0:01C48954] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdm an tty's X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:05:04 -0000 Marcel.lautenbach wrote: >Hi folks, > >well, I just started up with FreeBSD. Otherwise I would not be writing >to this group :-) > >So, up to date I am rather limited in my knowldege :-) > >And here is my first problem: I have set up a running and functional >FreeBSD 4.10 System in an VMware enviroment. > >Well, I came to a pioint where it is said you could autostart xdm by >eddeting the /etc/ttys for tty8 and set on the xdm -daemon. > >So far, so good. Now, I start the system and automacially xdm starts >up. I just have to login and can run my favourite Desktop, e.g. KDE. > >Well, but how can I switch in xdm to another tty. Generally I can use >the F-Keys in combination with ALT to switch. But when I am in xdm and I do not want to >login-in via xdm and start KDE, how can I swith. When I us ALT-F2 for >instance I don't get tty1. Al it says ist that my login is not correct >after the second try, because I am in the user/password fields. Can someone helmp me with this matter? >I would defenitely appreciate it :-) > > > Well, I start gdm on ttyv0; Using CTL-ALT-F(x) gets me to the other virtual consoles. CTL-ALT-F9 gets me back to X. YMMV, but I HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.