From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 13 3:20:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sccmmhc02.mchsi.com (sccmmhc02.mchsi.com [204.127.203.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A55C237B419 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 03:20:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mchsi.com ([12.218.70.104]) by sccmmhc02.mchsi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020413102007.JFOE24267.sccmmhc02.mchsi.com@mchsi.com> for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 10:20:07 +0000 Message-ID: <3CB8078F.C7738F21@mchsi.com> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 05:25:19 -0500 From: "Mark A. Hummel" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Starting up to an X login -- XDM ??? References: <002d01c1e1b6$03c19400$a32c8aca@default> <200204120947130240.0DE781CC@mail.attbi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi everyone, I've asked this same question, for the most part, and I was referred to the same reference and it still does not work the way I want or think it should. When I start xdm, an xterm (not KDE) login comes up and throws me into the following loop: 1. fbsd login (text based as normal) 2. xterm login 3. kde starts automatically 4. logout of kde 5. xterm login screen appears 6. login again 7. goto step 5 I'm still resigned to use startx to get into kde, but I too would like an automated process. 3 years ago and 2 hard drives, I was given a script by one of the people on this mailing list which worked wonderfully. Now it seems no one knows about this and just tells me to use the xdm boot up method but to replace xdm with kdm. That only throws errors. The script was called by one of the startup files, "rc.conf" I think. It was only 4 or 5 lines long and one of the lines paused the script for 5 or 10 seconds to allow something else to happen before starting kde and its login screen. I'm sorry I can't be more specific than that, but once you have a script that works, I suppose one tends to take it for granted. Mark Jonathan Arnold wrote: > >Hi everyone, I was wondering how I would go about starting my machine to > >go an X logon upon boot, as Ive setup X. > > See the FAQ, man: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#XDM-BOOT > -- > Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) > Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: > http://jdarnold.tzo.com/FreeBSD > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message