[arch-general] gdm not found when booting into runlevel 5
David Rosenstrauch
darose at darose.net
Thu Jun 19 15:39:52 EDT 2008
Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Nigel Henry
> <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
>> Is there some file that I need to edit, in order to use gdm as the display
>> manager?
>>
>> Nigel.
>
> You need to edit /etc/inittab
Not saying you're wrong, but personally I've never edited the inittab
file, and I'm still able to start whatever DM I want.
Just adding the appropriate DM (e.g., gdm, kdm, slim, etc.) to the end
of the DAEMONS line in rc.conf has always done the trick for me.
HTH,
DR
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