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Date:      Sun, 13 Apr 2003 13:28:10 +0500
From:      "Abidoon Nadeem" <abidoon@hotmail.com>
To:        "Rob Lahaye" <lahaye@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Starting X Automatically
Message-ID:  <Law9-OE28H02WhknnIZ00004a4f@hotmail.com>
References:  <Law9-OE17DOv5y4FypK0000499c@hotmail.com> <3E98F29D.5040704@users.sourceforge.net>

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this starts xterm however i want kde to start up on x 
i suppose this would require some additional configuration 
please help 

Abidoon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Lahaye" <lahaye@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "Abidoon Nadeem" <abidoon@hotmail.com>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: Starting X Automatically


> 
> Abidoon Nadeem wrote:
> > Linux has run levels 
> > in run level 5 X starts automatically 
> > what can i do to make X start up all by itself when freebsd boots up ! 
> > Please reply ASAP ! 
> 
> In /etc/ttys, there's a line for ttyv8; be sure it looks like:
> 
> ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   on  secure
> 
> 
> BTW: no need for rebooting after this change. Simply do
> as root "kill -HUP 1" (no quotes, of course).
> 
> R.
> 
> 



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