[arch-general] moving away from gnome

[pete]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:57:58 +0000
Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/25/2012 09:13 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> 
> I had that line, but my interpretation was that if the initdefault is
> 5 then do that.
> Apparently the initdefault line was not taken into consideration.
> 
> Now I rebooted again and with this line
> id:3:initdefault:
> 
> arch still boots in init 5, but at least it doesn't fire up GDM now.
> So how on earth is it possible that it boots in init 5 even if I
> declare the default to be 3?

You have removed   gdm from  "/etc/rc.conf"  at the bottom   

Pete .




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