On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 05:57:45PM -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: > > On 03/04/10 17:43, Warren Block wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Polytropon wrote: > <snip> > >> As far as I know, earlier X installations came with the > >> tab window manager - twm. This doesn't seem to be the case > >> anymore. > > > > twm is still enabled by default as part of the x11/xorg-apps port. > > I can confirm that, and I too have problems with XDM despite having > 'exec wmaker' in my .xinitrc in my home directory (sometimes XDM will > kick me out to the login, sometimes it will just take me to a blank > session wherein I can do nothing). I'd like to use XDM and have it start > on boot so I'm interested in the outcome of this.
If you read the manpage for xdm(1) you will see that the script that is run on login is ~/.xsession Try putting "exec wmaker" in there. To run xdm from boot, you have to edit /etc/ttys and then: # kill -HUP 1 Look at this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
