Re: xdm an tty's

From: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. (kdk_at_daleco.biz)
Date: 08/23/04

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    Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:05:00 -0500
To: "Marcel.lautenbach" <freebsd@xtsy.de>

    Marcel.lautenbach wrote:

    >Hi folks,
    >
    >well, I just started up with FreeBSD. Otherwise I would not be writing
    >to this group :-)
    >
    >So, up to date I am rather limited in my knowldege :-)
    >
    >And here is my first problem: I have set up a running and functional
    >FreeBSD 4.10 System in an VMware enviroment.
    >
    >Well, I came to a pioint where it is said you could autostart xdm by
    >eddeting the /etc/ttys for tty8 and set on the xdm -daemon.
    >
    >So far, so good. Now, I start the system and automacially xdm starts
    >up. I just have to login and can run my favourite Desktop, e.g. KDE.
    >
    >Well, but how can I switch in xdm to another tty. Generally I can use
    >the F-Keys in combination with ALT to switch. But when I am in xdm and I do not want to
    >login-in via xdm and start KDE, how can I swith. When I us ALT-F2 for
    >instance I don't get tty1. Al it says ist that my login is not correct
    >after the second try, because I am in the user/password fields. Can someone helmp me with this matter?
    >I would defenitely appreciate it :-)
    >
    >
    >

    Well, I start gdm on ttyv0; Using CTL-ALT-F(x) gets
    me to the other virtual consoles. CTL-ALT-F9 gets
    me back to X. YMMV, but I HTH,

    Kevin Kinsey
    DaleCo, S.P.
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