Re: How do you configure opendarwin to give graphical login with X11 after boot?

on 3/15/2005 10:10 AM msalisbury said the following:
> Hi, 
> 
>  
> 
> I installed opendarwin-7.2.1 and XFree86-4.4 on my ibook clamshell.  
> Everything works well.  I’m using twm at the moment (exploring all the 
> configuration possibilities).  I have fink and darwinports installed via 
> cvs.  I was having problems with the date but found out about the 
> command “date” and set the clock so that things install easily.  I still 
> cannot get xterm or rxvt to give ansi color but I haven’t set up an 
> .Xdefault or .Xresources file yet. I’ll try that soon.  Right now when I 
> turn the ibook on, I get the regular console and start x with “startx”. 
>  I have had problems with it starting up til I changed some files around 
> (ssh_config and sshd_config).  Now I would like to get a graphical login 
> to X after I turn on the ibook, instead of the console login.  Does that 
> mean I need to use XDM or do I just have to put something in 
> /Library/StartupItems.  I read a website that talks about using XDM and 
> Xvnc which discusses putting XDMStartup.tar.gz in /Library/StartupItems 
> (http://homepage.mac.com/steventamm/software/xdmvnc.html).  I was 
> wondering if any one had any advice?
> 


Mike,

     Essentially, you just need XDM to get the graphical login on your
iBook.  Also, to test colours in your xterm or rxvt is, if you have
GNU's 'ls' command (ls --help), you can try issuing 'ls --color=yes' and
see if things get listed in colour or not.  I've never had to do much
as far as setting things up go, in order to be able to get colour in my
xterm or rxvt whether I'm using Cygwin, NetBSD/sparc64, or 
Debian/PowerPC.  If you don't have the following in your system XTerm
resource file, then you will need the following in your ~/.Xdefaults
file:

       XTerm*VT100*colorMode: on
       XTerm*VT100*boldColors: on
       XTerm*VT100*dynamicColors: on



cheers,

      mehul