BackTrack-like GUI login

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astralfx

Hello, I'm new here. Anyway so I've been using FreeBSD for about two weeks now, loving it (it's interesting to build everything myself, having my entire disk f**k up but after spending two days, eventually recovered it).

I was wondering, is it possible to have a login manager like SLIM, but once you successfully login, it loads a console instead of automatic startx.

I went through SLIM docs, I found some stuff (did testing), but none related to loading a graphic console like BackTrack have (you may ask why, I like having a graphic login, but I also like having a graphical console so I can do whatever I need to, before having to run startx and it still looks nice).

So are there any other GUI logins, that support a console (before typing startx)..

backtrack-booting.jpg
 
The backtrack console uses a framebuffer to pull this off. This isn't possible on FreeBSD.

You can start Xorg using slim and instead of starting a window manager just start xterm or rxvt.
 
Not the console framebuffer as used by BackTrack and other Linux distros.
 
Ok I just stuck with SLIM..

Though now I'm having a problem. When I boot my PC and it starts SLIM, there is 3 - 5 secs of (FROZEN? LAG?) before I can type anything.. If I quit X while logged in, it is instant to type in.. But boot up, there is a lag to input anything?

Help (here is my slim.these .. though I don't think there's anything wrong with it)?

Code: 
msg_color               #FFFFFF
msg_font                Verdana:size=16:bold
msg_shadow_xoffset 1
msg_shadow_yoffset 1
msg_shadow_color   #aaaaaa

# Screen background style. Valid values: stretch, tile
background_style        stretch

# Input controls
input_panel_x           50%
input_panel_y           91%
input_name_x            120
input_name_y            135

input_font          	Verdana:size=10:bold
#username_font              Verdana:size=12:bold
input_color		#0066FF
input_bgcolor           #000000
input_fgcolor           #0066FF
input_shadow_xoffset 	1
input_shadow_yoffset 	1
input_shadow_color   	#0000ff
 
Not the console framebuffer as used by BackTrack and other Linux distros.
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I did not get it. There is vesa driver for console both for x86 and amd64; bootsplash as of forum works OK; jfbterm and image background there works (don't know if you could use jfbterm as login console); links -g (or something similar) worked too.
What do you measn by 'not the console framebuffer as used by...'?
 
nekoexmachina said:
What do you measn by 'not the console framebuffer as used by...'?
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Try and create a FreeBSD console as shown in the BackTrack picture. You'll see what I mean.
 
Please check the content of configuration file related to slim in /usr/local/etc/ as well as the startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/.
 
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