Re: X questions

From: Paul Schmehl (pschmehl_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 10/11/03 

Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 19:27:22 GMT

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 09:28:57 -0500, J'm Sm'th wrote:
>
> xdm or wdm or gdm [if running gnome] or kdm [if running kde] are your
> friends. I had the best luck with wdm [then again, I'm a fan of the
> WindowMaker window manager]. Read the FreeBSD handbook, it [and Google]
> are your friends. You'll want to edit the /etc/ttys file to
> automatically turn xdm [or whatever] on.

Now *that's* the one piece of information I couldn't seem to figure out.
I can run xdm from the CLI and it works fine. I just couldn't figure out
how to make it start automatically. Thanks for that tip.

I will definitely check the handbook and read through the section on X.

One followup question - Why doesn't FBSD set kern.securelevel to 0 instead
of 2 when you enable X windows? It took me a while to figure that one
out. Then, I set kern.securelevel to 0 in the /etc/rc.conf and yet, when
I rebooted the machine, kern.securelevel was at 1, according to sysctl. I
had to set it to -1 in the /etc/rc.conf file in order to get X working.

I'm not complaining, but it seems like it would make more sense to set
kern.securelevel to 0 or -1 if, during the install, you choose to install
X Windows. 

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Paul Schmehl
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http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
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