Hello, I recently set up a couple Pentium MMX 233 machines with OpenBSD 4.5 for the purpose of running gdm, ratpoison, vncviewer, rdesktop, and xterm. I found gdm to be the best option for a login manager, both because it loads quite fast and is very configurable (I've included below an OpenBSD theme I created for it). However, by default, it is impossible to run on hardware this slow.
In order to keep gdm from killing itself timing out waiting for X to start, I found I needed to add the following in /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf, within the [daemon] section: GdmXserverTimeout=60 Without that, gdm will sometimes successfully launch if I load it by hand after already starting and stopping X, but never the first time, never on boot, and not reliably even when circumstances are favorable. Here is a GDM theme for OpenBSD. Unpack it into /usr/local/share/gdm/themes. I have only tried it using 1024x768 screen resolution - so testing on other monitor sizes would be appreciated! http://casey.shobe.info/software/gdm-theme-openbsd-0.1.tar.gz Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe ca...@shobe.info
