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Deamon style, it works so why bother with something else?
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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.
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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)
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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)
To know recursion, you must first know recursion.
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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
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GDM here. Why? Because I can do that in this way and it works
Kermit.
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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)
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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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Last edited by benplaut (2021-06-25 12:26:25)
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kdm
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inittab
Its a sick world we live in....
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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 ....
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dienadel, thanks, although I already found the wiki entry about that
To know recursion, you must first know recursion.
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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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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
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Last edited by benplaut (2021-06-25 12:26:18)
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login and type startx least hassle
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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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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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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...
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SLiM from inittab, so I can disable it directly from GRUB by booting runlevel 3.
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.bash_profile
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kdm in DAEMONS. when i am not so lazy. i will revisit this thread and try the l33t g33k ways of doing it.
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daemon style.
it is simple and is very easy to stop gdm for installing nvidia drive.
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