From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 10: 9: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D3EC37BB6E for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:09:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 1400 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2000 17:08:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory3.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (qmailr@144.16.71.158) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 14 Aug 2000 17:08:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 913 invoked by uid 211); 14 Aug 2000 17:08:51 -0000 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 22:38:50 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: "Andresen,Jason R." Cc: mattb@finsyn.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XDM Message-ID: <20000814223850.A908@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: "Andresen,Jason R." , mattb@finsyn.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <71F816A89AA9D3119F4C00D0B7094EFC198DB6@FIN_SYN> <399826D3.89095855@mitre.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <399826D3.89095855@mitre.org>; from jandrese@mitre.org on Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 01:05:23PM -0400 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.0-test3 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message