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Gentoo4life
03-27-2004, 05:35 PM
I am running gentoo linux btw....
Ok, I tried changing the runlevel to '4' then I did a "rc-update add xdm default" then rebooted but it loaded up some XFree86 log in deal and that is not what I wanted..... I also have it configured in /etc/rc.conf so that my displaymanager is 'gdm' and my Xsession var is 'fluxbox'
...what am I missing because it is not booting into gdm?
je_fro
03-27-2004, 05:55 PM
DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm
XSESSION=fluxbox
That works fine for me...
Originally posted by Gentoo4life
Ok, I tried changing the runlevel to '4' then I did a "rc-update add xdm default" then rebooted but it loaded up some XFree86 log in deal and that is not what I wanted..... I also have it configured in /etc/rc.conf so that my displaymanager is 'gdm' and my Xsession var is 'fluxbox'
OK, first of all why are you changing runlevels like that? There is a doc that explains Gentoo init system and the runlevels have names not numbers.
www.gentoo.org/docs
There is also a desktop guide that explains this stuff there.
je_fro
03-27-2004, 06:04 PM
An excellent point, Hayl, that I overlooked completely.
Changing runlevel to 4 was the wrong thing to do. I don't think there is a runlevel 4. I know there's boot and default rulevels, but I'd have to GO READ THE DOCUMENTATION to see about the rest...
Uranus
03-28-2004, 06:04 AM
First, XSESSION=gdm and DISPLAYMANAGER=Fluxbox didn't work for me either, now I just started gdm from a terminal and told it to retry loading into my currents display - after doing that twice it just started gdm, I went into session and chose fluxbox. After that I changed XSESSION and DISPLAYMANAGER and now it just works.
Sam