[arch-general] moving away from gnome

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Sat Feb 25 16:27:40 EST 2012


On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 22:13 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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

PS: I've got different Linux distros installed, don't care about the
runlevel ;).



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