Question about XDM

[Mike Sanders]

Antoine Kallab wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> I'm new to BSD, so please bear with me if I ask a dumb question. Thanks!
> ---
> I am trying to set up XDM. I want it to drop me in to a minimal TWM session
> after I log in. Right now, it just flashes the screen and puts me back at
> the login window.
> From what I read in the handbook, there are a few configuration files in
> /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm that I need to change to get it to sing and dance in
> the way I want it to.
> If I remember correctly, it was Xsession that controlled what happened
> after a user logs in.
> Right now it is just an if/then loop that looks like it runs
> /usr/local/bin/xsm. Is that whole thing necessary? Can't I just tell it to
> run TWM?
> And if that loop is necessary, where would I add my bit for starting TWM?
> Google has been ZERO help.
> 
> Many thanks in advance.

Hi Antoine.

Here's a paper I wrote last year on configuring XDM in FreeBSD.

You can download the pdf from my site:

<http://freebsd.hypermart.net/papers/freebsd-xdm.pdf>


Or you can view the pdf online via google doc's viewer:

<https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://freebsd.hypermart.net/papers/freebsd-xdm.pdf>

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Mike Sanders
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