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From: tom@tarush.chattanooga.net (Tom Rush)
Subject: Re: X11R6 and xdm
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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 11:23:54 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: Why the heck do all people here recommend running xdm -nodaemon based
: on /etc/ttys???
This excerpt from the file '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.FreeBSD'
may have something to do with it:
3. Installing The Display Manager (xdm)
The display manager makes your PC look like an X terminal. That is,
it presents you with a login screen that runs under X.
The easiest way to automatically start the display manager on boot is
to add a line in /etc/ttys to start it on one of the unoccupied
virtual terminals:
ttyv4 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
--
Tom Rush
tom@tarush.chattanooga.net