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Geralt
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 Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:55 am Post subject: Starting X the prefered way? |
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Hi,
since switching to an X based login-manager, namely slim, I've been always unhappy about the xdm init script. Especially because it does not respawn X after killing it with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (could be a slim related issue). So I've been looking into other ways to startup slim at boot-time and I remembered from my Archlinux time a way to start it in inittab. So I tried starting slim with the following line in /etc/inittab:
| Code: | | x:3:respawn:/usr/bin/slim -nodaemon |
And after removing xdm from runlevels and rebooting it's working just fine. I can kill X with backspace and it's respawned and I think that X startup at boot-time is a bit smoother.
I just wanted to share this way of starting X/your login-manager/or something entirely else by using inittab 
Geralt. |
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Tolstoi
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| Thanks. I tried Slim a while ago and it's worth a try. I'm thinking of getting rid of KDM soon and probably won't replace it by any other login manager. |
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Yamakuzure
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Location: Adendorf, Germany
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I am using slim since I switched to xfce4 and the only thing I am wondering is: Hoe do I tell slim (without killing it!) that I, right now, want a console login?
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