xdm an tty's

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Marcel.lautenbach wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>well, I just started up with FreeBSD. Otherwise I would not be writing
>to this group :-)
>
>So, up to date I am rather limited in my knowldege :-)
>
>And here is my first problem: I have set up a running and functional
>FreeBSD 4.10 System in an VMware enviroment.
>
>Well, I came to a pioint where it is said you could autostart xdm by
>eddeting the /etc/ttys for tty8 and set on the xdm -daemon.
>
>So far, so good. Now, I start the system and automacially xdm starts
>up. I just have to login and can run my favourite Desktop, e.g. KDE.
>
>Well, but how can I switch in xdm to another tty. Generally I can use
>the F-Keys in combination with ALT to switch. But when I am in xdm and I do not want to
>login-in via xdm and start KDE, how can I swith. When I us ALT-F2 for
>instance I don't get tty1. Al it says ist that my login is not correct
>after the second try, because I am in the user/password fields. Can someone helmp me with this matter?
>I would defenitely appreciate it :-)
>
>  
>

Well, I start gdm on ttyv0; Using CTL-ALT-F(x) gets
me to the other virtual consoles.  CTL-ALT-F9 gets
me back to X.  YMMV, but I HTH,

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.