X on Xterminals but not on console

Matthias Apitz guru at unixarea.de
Wed Oct 5 17:59:15 UTC 2011


El día Wednesday, October 05, 2011 a las 12:10:47PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert escribió:

> n dhert <ndhertbsd at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > FreeBSD-8.2 with Xorg:
> > Is there a way one can specify that your never have X on the console (just
> > the login: prompt)
> > but still have X on any other X-windows termnal (an KDM login window) and
> > graphical environment
> 
> Sure.  It's all in how you configure KDM.
> 
> In xdm it's set up in the access file; 
> I wouldn't be surprised if kdm were the same.

You have login: on console, login, create a file ~/.xinitrc with the
lines:

twm &
xterm

and then you just say: startx and X11 will come up; ofc you could remove
software or create some dirty xorg.conf file which X11 will not let come up;

	matthias
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