How To Have GDM Boot Up on Startup

kritoke · 2003-08-05 18:28:54

I got asked a quesiton in the Arch Linux chat room pertaining to getting gdm to boot up on startup in Arch Linux, so I decided to put how to do it up here to help any others out who wanted this featre.

1. Open up /etc/inittab in root mode.

2. Change the line that starts with id( or comment it out using a # in front of it), which should be the first line after the comments(lines with # in front of them) to the following:

id:5:initdefault:

3. At the bottom of the file, you should see a line that begins with x:5:respawn, either comment it out (again, with a # infront of the line) or remove it, and put the following in it's place:

x:5:respawn:/opt/gnome/bin/gdm

3b. Theoretically, you could do the same with kdm, but I haven't tested it, I would assume you would put this in the place of the line:

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

4. Save the file.

5. Reboot

6. Happy Logging in With a GUI

Kritoke

gnomebox · 2003-08-06 08:33:04

thanks kritoke. should have asked u on aim, but now that its here

Moritz · 2003-08-06 13:06:12

why don't you use the init-script (/etc/rc.d/gdm)
rc.conf:
DEAMONS = (gdm...)
:?:

kritoke · 2003-08-06 17:49:56

There is more than one way to skin a cat :-P.
I am not all that familar with dealing with rc.conf. In my Gentoo days, there was a weird setting we could use, think it would be a simple DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm, but I was not totally sure how to do it another way in Arch. So now people have two ways in doing it instead of one.

Kritoke

Moritz · 2003-08-06 23:04:00

okay....
/me was just a little confused

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How To Have GDM Boot Up on Startup

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Re: How To Have GDM Boot Up on Startup

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