an important missing step from the instructions

cosmic · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 2

I have recently installed Gentoo Linux for the first time. I faithfully followed the instructions that I have found on the www.gentoo.org site and noticed it doesn't say anything about configuring your system to boot into a graphical user interface.

Missing is a step that tells you to run the following command

rc-update add xdm default

Even though your are telling gentoo to add xdm to the default init profile you can use it to boot gdm or kdm if you configure your rc.conf file correctly.

to do that do this

nano -w /etc/rc.conf

find the line that talks about xdm and change it to be gdm or kdm

ALSO

Find the line that defines the Session varible and specify it be like this

SESSION=Gnome
or
SESSION=kde-vv

where vv is the version of kde you have installed on your system.

Chris Weber

fp2099 · Apprentice Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 261

....Desktop Config Manual....

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml

I will never know why ppl don't read...

epx · n00b Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 68

Some of us still like to boot into the CLI.

I personally hate those login guis.

Stu L Tissimus · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 4:03 am Post subject:

*random stuff*

Epx, I hate GDM and KDM and XDM also... But I love Qingy. Give it a try. It's in Portage.
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