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From: Andr=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9?= Coetzee <acoetzee@ctcc.gov.za>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: xdm in /etc/rc.local
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 12:25:38 -0700
Organization: Cape Town City Council
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I have installed XFree86.

I would like to know if its possible to load the xterm window (tty4 in my 
case) in the background?

At the moment, the boot procedure takes me straight into X. I would 
prefer keeping tty0 available as the default login terminal. The way I 
accomplish this is by not loading anything in /etc/rc.local and then 
running startx to load X when I need it, but that takes away one tty.

Also, anyone know of a freeware color bitmap viewer/editor for X (bmp, 
gif, jpeg's etc.)  And a wordprocessor (like Windows Write) and a 
spreadsheet (doesn't have to be for X)?

I've had a look at Wine - I am very impressed. Took a long time to 
compile though, plus I had to reconfigure my kernel to enable options 
USER_LDT, but it was worth the wait.

System: FreeBSD 2.1.5R / 486 DX / 8 Meg / SCSI
Regards ... ac