[arch-general] gdm not found when booting into runlevel 5

[Christian Babeux]

David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> 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
>
As stated on the official Arch Linux wiki there is two way of actually 
doing this:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Adding_a_login_manager_(KDM%2C_GDM%2C_or_XDM)_to_automatically_boot_on_startup#Inittab_Method

Aaron was refering to the inittab method.