Re: one minute guide to use headless X window

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Toru Nishimura
<locore64%alkyltechnology.com@localhost> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Correction,
>
>> "the correct way to use X" of old
>> g'days.  Here is the very short summary to meet nostalgia.
>
> 1. rm Xservers; ln -s Xservers.fs Xservers
> 2. de-#  for '#*' line in Xaccess
> 3. !-out "DisplayManager.requestPort" line in xdm-config.
> 4. if prefer, add "DisplayManager.sourceAddress: True" line.
> $DISPLAY will have decimal dotted notation hostname which
> may be useful for multiple NIC environment.
> 5. cat <<EoF >$HOME/.xsession; chmod 755 $HOME/.xsession
> #!/bin/sh
> xterm &
> twm
> EoF
>
> Xaccess provides the more fine control over xdm response,
> however, for the most cases, de-# from the very first #* should
> be ok.  (I long the day when the flock of Solbourne Computers
> could respond to NCD19 chooser menu)
>
> Toru Nishimura / ALKYL Technology
>

You might want to post some of this stuff on the wiki:
http://wiki.netbsd.se