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From: shanee@rabbit.augusta.de (Andreas Kohout)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xdm in /etc/rc.local
Date: 17 Aug 1996 15:46:21 GMT
Organization: Privat Site running FreeBSD
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> 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.
in /etc/rc.local change
xdm_start=YES
to xdm_start=NO
> 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)?
xanim, xpaint, Shareware: xv
sciTeXt (in ports-current)
xspread, nexs (Linux Binary, you need the linux-emulator)
--
Greeting, Andy
running FreeBSD-current
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