But if you are more of a clicky-clicky type of person, you probably want it to start off directly into some graphical greeter and login manager like gdm or xdm.
Starting gdm by default
add
| gdm_enable="YES" |
in /etc/rc.conf
and reboot. You should get gdm after boot.
One problem I could not come over with gdm is that I could not select or start KDE from it. It would always try to load gnome.
FailSafe Terminal and then running startkde works, but is again not for the clicky-clicky user.
Starting xdm+kde by default
This needs minor serious work.
First, edit /etc/ttys
under #Virtual terminals
change
| ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure |
to
| ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure |
This should start xdm with an xterm console log on virtual tty8 (the one you get when you hit
If you want to log in to kde after authenticating in xdm,
create/open ~/.xsession
and make it look like
| #!/bin/sh exec startkde |
This will start off kde after authenticating in xdm.
