From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 11:32:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cambridge1-smrly2.gtei.net (cambridge1-smrly2.gtei.net [199.94.215.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1823C37B588 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:32:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from AndrewGould@shannonhealth.org) Received: from istech4.shannonhealth.org (istech4.shannonhealth.org [4.18.79.4]) by cambridge1-smrly2.gtei.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E89E81E5C4 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 18:32:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by ISTECH4 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 13:40:21 -0500 Message-ID: <206499C84775D3119A000000F879310E011276DA@ISTECH4> From: Andrew Gould To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: XDM Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 13:40:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What you saw in SuSE was KDM, which is the KDE version of XDM. If you use KDE and KDM, IIRC, in the KDE menu, go to Settings/Applications/Login Manager. You should be presented with a window with several tabs that will allow you to configure the KDM login window. Configuration of the list of window manager options is handled in one of the last 2 tabs. Good luck, Andrew Gould > ---------- > From: Matt Bettinger[SMTP:mattb@finsyn.com] > Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 11:53 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: XDM > > <> > 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. > > Matthew Bettinger > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message