Re: [Sheflug] Login Screen

[Andrew Basterfield <nospam [at] lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk>]

Oops sorry I missread the question

Try typing 'xdm' from the console as root instead of 'startx'

Andrew Basterfield wrote:

> Darrell Blake wrote:
> 
> 
>> I'm running Slackware 7.1 and I am wondering if I can change any
>> config file so that I get a login screen on boot. When I type startx
>> it automatically loads the default window manager that I chose when
>> installing the distro. One of my friends is running the same distro
>> and installed it exactly the same way but he gets a login screen
>> when he types startx.
>> 
>> Darrell
> 
> 
> edit /etc/inittab - On line 23 of my Slackware 7.0 installation you have
> 
> id:4:initdefault:
> 
> This tells init to use runlevel 4 as default - this uses an X window 
> system graphical login. Change the 4 to a 3 & reboot and the system will 
> boot to text-based login.
> 
> Slackware's runlevels are
> 
> 0 Halt
> 1 Single user
> 2 Not used
> 3 Multi user + text based console
> 4 Multi user + graphical login
> 5 Not used
> 6 Reboot
> 
> So, typing 'shutdown -h now' is the same as 'init 0' (less keypresses, 
> bonus!) or 'init 6' instead of Ctrl-Alt-Del. Try 'man init' & 'man 
> inittab' for more information.
> 
> --
> A. Basterfield
> U/G Electronic & Communication Engineering
> The University of Sheffield
> 
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