On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 12:27:28PM -0700, brown wrap wrote: > I found a section in the old BLFS book on starting xwm. As far as I can tell, > its not built any longer with X11. Anyway, I tried to substitue twm in initab > insteand of xdm. I get a message on boot that say some about display starting > too fast. It scrolls by so fast I can't see it and I didn't find anything in > syslog or Xorg.log. > > So what is the correct format to start X at boot time. > > > > -- Xdm is a display manager. It provides a graphical logon for your local machine and for remote machines running X if set up correctly.
I don't know if it built with Xorg-7 .I have Xorg-6 and I just typed xdm at the console to see if I had it and I do. Twm is a window manager. It should be started from .xinitrc It wouldn't replace xdm or any other display manager as it serves a different function. I just looked at Xorg-7.5 page and I couldn't see where the xdm executable was installed but did see the libXdmcp-1.0.3 program that provides libraries for client logon, so xorg must still have xdm somewhere if you really want to use it. I used it once under debian and while I don't remember the details it was tricky to set up as a remote login. If you want to bypass the console put startx at the end of your /home/.bash_profile. Mike H. _-_-_-_ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
