From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 2 9:24:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E88D37BDB1 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 09:24:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12QYXO-000KZI-00; Thu, 02 Mar 2000 16:33:18 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12QYXO-000D0S-00; Thu, 02 Mar 2000 16:33:18 +0000 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:33:18 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: David Abdemoulaie Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: X doesnt startup on boot Message-ID: <20000302163318.G86224@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Abdemoulaie wrote: > How do I get X windows to start up on boot? I am using FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE, > with XFree86 3.3.6 with KDE. During install I chose the option to make KDE > my default window manager. However I can't get it to start on boot. It just > goes to a regular terminal screen where I have to manually login and type > startx to get it running. Any help would be appreciated Please read the FreeBSD FAQ at , this is documented there. I don't find startx a problem. After all, you only ever log out when you reboot, right? And you only reboot for hardware upgrades, right? :-) -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message