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Date:      Mon, 14 Aug 2000 22:38:50 +0530
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>
Cc:        mattb@finsyn.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XDM
Message-ID:  <20000814223850.A908@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <399826D3.89095855@mitre.org>; from jandrese@mitre.org on Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 01:05:23PM -0400
References:  <71F816A89AA9D3119F4C00D0B7094EFC198DB6@FIN_SYN> <399826D3.89095855@mitre.org>

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Andresen,Jason R. said on Aug 14, 2000 at 13:05:23:
> 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.

How about kdm.  If you installed KDE, you should have it already. 

Rahul.


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