Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 14:37:28 -0700 From: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X on Xterminals but not on console Message-ID: <CAHhngE3sR3oDVfNGR6ytphuh2ZpV8F-A3vhvNUAJfH-zv-3phg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111005175859.GA1010@tiny> References: <CAEFCw4sK9rNvmb9rcM3GD4AJixBO29VGyLxq65wQrx=%2BOCmNGA@mail.gmail.com> <44r52rto54.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20111005175859.GA1010@tiny>
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On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > El d=EDa Wednesday, October 05, 2011 a las 12:10:47PM -0400, Lowell Gilbe= rt escribi=F3: > >> n dhert <ndhertbsd@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > FreeBSD-8.2 with Xorg: >> > Is there a way one can specify that your never have X on the console (= just >> > the login: prompt) >> > but still have X on any other X-windows termnal (an KDM login window) = and >> > graphical environment >> >> Sure. =A0It's all in how you configure KDM. >> >> In xdm it's set up in the access file; >> I wouldn't be surprised if kdm were the same. > > You have login: on console, login, create a file ~/.xinitrc with the > lines: > > twm & > xterm > > and then you just say: startx and X11 will come up; ofc you could remove > software or create some dirty xorg.conf file which X11 will not let come = up; Couldn't you just remove execute permission for the X server binaries? People using X terminals will only be running X clients, since the server will be their terminal. In fact, i think you only need a server installed at all in this situation for dependency reasons.
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