On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 08:33:26PM -0400, zzflop wrote: > 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. > > > 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. > > Unsubscribe: See the above information page
You can find xdm at: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/app/ Mike H. _-_-_-_ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
