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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-11-23

Posts: 450

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

Deamon style, it works so why bother with something else?

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dienadel

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Registered: 2005-12-23

Posts: 179

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

Innitab

The 90% of times, i enter with kdm to the system by default.

But in grub, i have another entry, same as the default, but with the option "init=3". I select this option if i must enter to the shell.

This last option, couldn't exist if i'd use the daemon.

oscar.cambieri

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Registered: 2007-03-12

Posts: 15

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

Same as Dienadel (but using gdm and xfce)  for the same reasons... and happy! :-)
Oscar

Last edited by oscar.cambieri (2007-04-16 11:14:09)

lloeki

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-20

Posts: 456

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

I was just wondering if I could do just that (inittab, default init=5, init=3 as "backup") instead of daemon style.

obviously, switched to inittab (indeed, cleaner)

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dienadel

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Registered: 2005-12-23

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

I was just wondering if I could do just that (inittab, default init=5, init=3 as "backup") instead of daemon style.

obviously, switched to inittab (indeed, cleaner)

In inittab:

x:5:respawn:/opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon

and my two entries in menu.lst:

title        Arch Linux
root        (hd0,0)
kernel        /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=0x305 quiet
initrd        /kernel26.img

title        Arch Linux (init 3)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=0x305 init 3
initrd          /kernel26.img

Kermit

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From: Chorzów, Poland

Registered: 2006-03-25

Posts: 78

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

GDM here. Why? Because I can do that in this way and it works

Kermit.

phildg

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Registered: 2006-03-10

Posts: 146

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

i just login and type startx (eg how real men do it ;-))

Nah, real men automate things as much as possible.

The appropriate part of my .bash_profile file:

if [ "$(tty)" = "/dev/vc/1" ]; then
    /usr/bin/startxfce4
    logout
fi

Why .bash_profile instead of .bashrc? Because .bash_profile is only sourced at login, whereas .bashrc is sourced for every terminal, so negates the need to check if X is already running

I don't use any gnome or kde apps, so I ain't installing half of gnome or kde for the sake of a graphical login manager

Last edited by phildg (2007-04-16 19:17:53)

patroclo7

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From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 915

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

I have the opposite opinion about real men. Real men do everything by hand, they do not even use PCs and probably do not write in this forum.

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benplaut

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Registered: 2006-06-13

Posts: 383

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

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raymano

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Registered: 2006-10-13

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

kdm

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aRcHaTe

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Registered: 2006-10-24

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

inittab

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Echo

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From: Ohio, United States

Registered: 2006-05-16

Posts: 239

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

I have the following in .bashrc

alias x='startx'

That way all I have to do is type "x" to "startx". Typing startx all the time was too much trouble, but, I really don't want to use kdm, gdm ....

lloeki

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-20

Posts: 456

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

dienadel, thanks, although I already found the wiki entry about that

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patroclo7

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From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 915

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

I have this in my .zshrc, in order to avoid to see the standard output each time, to have a synthetic log file and to have my console shell back:

alias x='startx -- -quiet -logverbose 1 &> /dev/null &'

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Zer0

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From: Windsor, ON, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-25

Posts: 299

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

Well I tried the daemons method for a couple days and I think I'll stay with inittab (runlevel 5) style.

1) I usually jump right into X anyway.
2) When I do need command line before loading X I can use the init=# kernel option.  When loading via daemon style you can't really do this.

Even though I'm aware of the init=# option.. I seem to have forgotten about it,  creating an extra grub entry is an excellent idea.. thanks

benplaut

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Registered: 2006-06-13

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

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mecon

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Registered: 2007-06-25

Posts: 31

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

login and type startx least hassle

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thayer

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

inittab

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kano

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From: Michigan

Registered: 2007-05-04

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

gdm in DAEMONS=()

it works without hassle, and if there's an X problem, chances are it will just drop me to a console anyways so I can fix it.

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Kenetixx

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Registered: 2006-09-09

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

startx with exec gnomesession in .xinitrc
I like the command line start because i am a n00b and break my system all the time trying things so command is easy for me

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faw

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Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 18

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

Like a few of the previous posts, I'm also using inittab with the two runlevel options in grub. It's really not that much extra work, and to me it just seems much more cleaner and polished. 'Each to their own' though...

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

SLiM from inittab, so I can disable it directly from GRUB by booting runlevel 3.

festgreifaah

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Registered: 2006-06-12

Posts: 51

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

.bash_profile

scarney

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From: Wisconsin, US

Registered: 2006-07-11

Posts: 173

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

kdm in DAEMONS. when i am not so lazy. i will revisit this thread and try the l33t g33k ways of doing it.

hongy19

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From: China

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 83

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

daemon style.
it is simple and is very easy to stop gdm for installing nvidia drive.