On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Daniel Senderowicz wrote:

> 1) when I exit X, the console keyboard becomes "sluggish", that
> is the letters double if I don't remove the finger immediately,

This is a known bug - as far as I know it hasn't been fixed.

> 2) when there is a console message it screws up the window
> environment.

Try xconsole, or xterm -C

> For the 2nd problem I read in the man pages about xdm as a
> possible solution, since messages will be written into another
> window, but I couldn't figure out the way to start it.

Set xdm=YES in /etc/rc.conf


p.s. Does someone want to add these to the FAQ? Are they too 
     obvious??