how to start X11 on login?

[Mantazz]

Now that I have XOrg running well on my system I would like it to start after login for some users but not all. I know I could just put the

xinit

command into the .cshrc files for the users who want to always run X, but is there a better way?
In particular, it is less than ideal to start X from the .cshrc as of course that file is subsequently read for every console in X - which causes interesting problems.

[peenworm]

in /etc/ttys, there's the line:

ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure


replace "off" with "on," and restart. Put your window manager and various .xinitrc contents into ~/.xsession

If you plan on running gnome, install gdm and put gnome_enable="YES" in your /etc/rc.conf

[peenworm]

If you don't want to start X on boot, but do want it to start after you log in, put the commands you want in the .login file. But there's not a whole lot of reason not to use xdm/gdm