how to enable graphical login?

Lazarus18 · n00b Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 38

This isn't a hard thing, I'm sure, but I can't figure out what to change to enable it. Right now booting results in a text login, so I ahve to type startx after logging in. How to change it to boot up KDE's login?

TIA,
-Rob

VooDoo · Guest

just try
#rc-update add xdm default

and adjust the DISPLAYMANAGER= Setting in /etc/rc.conf to kwm

cu voodoo

klieber · Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 5:38 pm Post subject:

Jeevz · Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 8:21 pm Post subject:

If you are inspired to read more about this, then check out the very informative article, Gentoo Linux 1.0 Init System.

Guest · Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2002 3:03 pm Post subject:

How can I log in graphically into a small window manager like twm (and not kde like now)?

The following thing was already done (because I always logged in graphically via kdm into kde before):

zojas · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2002 5:07 pm Post subject:

make sure you have execute permission on your .xsession file:
chmod ugo+rx ~/.xsession
then put this in your .xsession:

xterm&
exec twm

metalhedd · Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 1:48 am Post subject:

twm... blegh\

Gentoobie

I recently switched to a graphical login and now my shell comes up as "bash-2$" instead of user@name or what ever it used to be. Can someone tell me how to switch it back?

[herb] · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 6:14 am Post subject:

If you type "source /etc/profile" as bash, that will fix it. I've never figured out how to do it permanently though, good question.
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Gentoobie · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 6:38 am Post subject:

That worked thanks, but like you said its not permanent. I looked at my inittab file and every time I reboot it adds another number to Default runlevel line "id:333:initdefault". I don't like that. Thanks again.

zojas · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 1:31 pm Post subject:

here's the reason your bash prompt is funny: the shells that get started in X aren't login shells, so not all of the bash init files get read. (i think the profile is the one that gets left out and it just reads the .bashrc).

unfortunately, each terminal has a slightly different way to be told to start a login shell. with xterm, add the '-ls' flag to the command line of xterm.

the best way to fix this is to carefully read bash's man page which tells you which of bash's config files get read under different situations. for example, you should probably set your prompt in the .bashrc file rather than in .profile. I carefully set up all the files for the shell I use (zsh) and I'm much happier now.

the quick and dirty fix is to have your .bashrc file read in your .profile (or vice versa, i don't really know the order in bash)

I believe the reason this worked before is that you logged in from the console, which gave you a login shell. then all the processes you launched from that shell inherited the full environment. when you log in from the graphical login, the first process owned by you isn't a full blown login shell, so the processes launched from it inherit a much smaller environment.
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Gentoobie · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 12:48 am Post subject:

Everything is back to normal! Back to text login and when I open a shell its at user@hostname not bash-2. I ran "rc-update del xdm" without specifying a runlevel. Thanks for all your help.

Stolz · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 4:23 am Post subject:

I get this error:

zojas · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 4:28 am Post subject:

you want to have this line in /etc/rc.conf: