On 13 April 2010 15:01, Casey Allen Shobe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I recently set up a couple Pentium MMX 233 machines with OpenBSD 4.5 for the > purpose of running gdm, ratpoison, vncviewer, rdesktop, and xterm. I found > gdm to be the best option for a login manager, both because it loads quite > fast and is very configurable (I've included below an OpenBSD theme I > created for it). However, by default, it is impossible to run on hardware > this slow. > > In order to keep gdm from killing itself timing out waiting for X to start, > I found I needed to add the following in /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf, within > the [daemon] section: > > GdmXserverTimeout=60 > > Without that, gdm will sometimes successfully launch if I load it by hand > after already starting and stopping X, but never the first time, never on > boot, and not reliably even when circumstances are favorable. > > Here is a GDM theme for OpenBSD. Unpack it into > /usr/local/share/gdm/themes. I have only tried it using 1024x768 screen > resolution - so testing on other monitor sizes would be appreciated! > http://casey.shobe.info/software/gdm-theme-openbsd-0.1.tar.gz > > Cheers, > -- > Casey Allen Shobe > [email protected] > >
Why not xdm ? Considering gdm is much much much heavier.
