Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 05:43:33 -0500 From: "Jonathan Arnold" <jdarnold@buddydog.org> To: "Peter Leftwich" <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XF86 4.2.0 /etc/ttys ? Message-ID: <200204020543330432.0309FC3C@mail.attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <20020401222647.H712-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> References: <20020401222647.H712-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com>
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ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure # Virtual terminals ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure #ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" kterm off secure You can read about it in a couple of places: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#XDM-BOOT You can read about my trials and tribulations trying to get xdm/gdm/kdm running in yesterday's entry in my weblog (see .sig). >And what's all this I hear about CTRL-Alt-F# to change from console to X? When you are in at a console, Alt-F# switches to that console. When you are in X, Ctrl-Alt-F# switches to that console, with the caveat being that, in my case for example, F9 is ttyv8, the "X console". So whenever I swap to there, I go into my X environment. >And what's this I hear about using wrapper if you are non-root? Once I think in a normal, effective install, this all happens automagically. >the startx script or the XFree86 binary is run from the command line, is >the user taken automatically into a GUI environment, or must the user then >*change* to the virtual console/screen on which the X-server is running? When you do startx, you jump right into the X console. -- 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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