From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 10: 3: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mbunix.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8692A37B55F for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:03:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA07522 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 13:03:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA25337 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 13:00:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FZAKOZ00.FIW; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 13:02:59 -0400 Message-ID: <399826D3.89095855@mitre.org> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 13:05:23 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mattb@finsyn.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XDM References: <71F816A89AA9D3119F4C00D0B7094EFC198DB6@FIN_SYN> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Bettinger wrote: > > Questions on XDM. I have installed KDE that's fine. I try to open up > gnome, enlightenment or afterstep from the command line and it tells me > cannot open display. I don't have xdm installed and would like to be able > to have a choice between gui's (for other members of the household) Is > there something similar to the startup screen in SuSE?? *heh* You know.. > where it has the users name/picture and you enter the passwd then can > choose what gui you would like to open upon login. Thanks. You might want to give wdm (in the ports) a try. It allows you to select your login environment, but it doesn't have the nifty pictures to click so your family memebers are still going to have to type their login and password. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message