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From: scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Scott Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xdm in /etc/rc.local
Date: 16 Aug 1996 14:14:43 GMT
Organization: Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK
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In-reply-to: Andr=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9?= Coetzee's message of Thu, 15 Aug 1996 12:25:38 -0700
In article <321379B2.7283@ctcc.gov.za> Andr=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9?= Coetzee <acoetzee@ctcc.gov.za> writes:
> 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.
Hmmm, I guess you could start X on another tty (through /etc/ttys),
then have your /etc/rc.local flip you back to ttyv0 after xdm has done
its thing. That's pretty ugly though. With only 8Mb I wouldn't be
starting X unless I was actually going to use it right now, so using
startx is IMHO the best way to go in your situation. OTOH, if you
have enough RAM for X to be happy then there's never much need to use
a text-mode terminal.
> 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)?
For image viewing, xv (in the ports collection) is superb. I think
it's free for individual use. As for editing, we used to have a
dreadful thing called xpaint on our Suns at U Waikato, which tended to
dump core if you breathed too loudly. Other than that I don't know.
Share and enjoy.
Scott
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