[Bulk] Question about XDM

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> I'm using Linux and don't care much about my FreeBSD install, however,
> it likely is more or less equal for FreeBSD too.
>
> There are several ways to start a WM/DE for Linux, the most common ways
> IMO are to use
>
> ~/.xinitrc
>
> or much more likely to use an entry in
>
> /usr/share/xsessions/
>
> On a Linux mailing list I would ask you to provide more informations,
> but I don't have knowledge about FreeBSD.
>
> Anyway, I would search the web for FreeBSD + xinitrc and xsessions.
>
> My apologise, assumed this should be completely bad for FreeBSD.

On FreeBSD, xdm is often used by enabling the entry for ttyv8 in 
/etc/ttys, then adding the window manager start commands in 
the user's .xsession file.