[arch-general] moving away from gnome

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Sat Feb 25 16:13:57 EST 2012


On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 22:05 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> Hi Andrea,
> 
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Andrea Crotti
> <andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > and this in inittab:
> > id:3:initdefault:
> > # Boot to X11
> > # id:5:initdefault:
> >
> > after rebooting GDM still fires up!! But how come? What is firing it up?
> 
> Depends on what else is in your inittab file. By default nothing in
> inittab will start gdm, but there are plenty of guides out  there
> suggesting how to do that.
> 
> -t

I don't have GNOME installed, but I decided to use GDM.

Isn't there such an entry as I've got:

[spinymouse at archlinux ~]$ grep gdm /etc/inittab
x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon

- Ralf



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