Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 09:06:57 -0500 From: "Mark A. Hummel" <mhumm2@mchsi.com> To: jdarnold@buddydog.org Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Startx, xdm, and kdm Danger??? Message-ID: <3CB1A401.291FA2F7@mchsi.com> References: <3CB19142.A39B2D61@mchsi.com> <200204080934180628.04DEEF23@mail.attbi.com>
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Jonathan, Thank you for the quick and thorough reply. I've read that part of the FreeBSD doc file as you suggested and I understand the confusion over my question. I'll restate it more clearly. I want KDE to automatically run at system boot up and present me with its native login screen before taking the user to the KDE desktop. I want to accomplish this in the most effective and efficient way possible. Mark Jonathan Arnold wrote: > >4.4r with KDE 2.2. I want FBSD to start up in KDE, but I know I need a > >script to do that. The script was about 5 lines long, but I no longer > > Hmm, what script would that be? And are you talking about starting KDE > when you log in, or to have the KDM login manager? > >xdm takes me to an xterm login screen even after I've already logged > > You must have xdm running, not kdm. See the following for help: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html > > and just use kdm whereever it says xdm. > >in. Loging in again gets me to KDE, but when I logout, I get stuck in > > Yes, so you have your .xinitrc set up to run KDE, so you're all set. But > if you want to run kdbm, see the above link for how to do it. > > -- > 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
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