Re: Graphical startup

From: Andrew Reilly (andrew_at_gurney.reilly.home)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:07:11 GMT

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:57:36 +0000, Us wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 05:23:12 GMT
> Chris Schumacher <kensu__@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I could swear I heard that FreeBSD had an option to start up a
>> graphical session manager like Redhat does. I just installed 5.1 and
>> didn't see an option for that.
>> Not that it really matters, since all the things I wanted to do
>> (reconfigure the desktop, add packages et cetera) is handled through
>> sysinstall... Just wanted to know if I was missing something.
>>
>> -==Kensu==-
>
>
> Yes it does :)
>
> Edit the /etc/ttys file. My line has:
> ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm" cons25l1 on secure
> and that should do. Of course you can use something else - besides kdm
> which is of KDE enviroment. When you edit the file do "kill -HUP 1" and
> off you go!

If GNOME's your thing, then (for reasons that I don't understand) gdm
doesn't like to start from ttys. The port installs a startup script in
/usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d, but I start mine under daemontools (ports/sysutils)
along with most of my running daemons.

Anyone know why gdm doesn't like to start from ttys?

You could also do the raw X thing, which is /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm in the ttys
file, as kdm is described above. That works fine too. 

-- 
Andrew