Slackware - auto startx

[Sl4ker]

How do i get the KDE interface to start automatically rather than logging in and using the command 'startx' at boot?

Thanks in advance.

[Calipso]

open up /etc/inittab in a text editor.
Scroll down to this line:
id:3:initdefault:

now change the 3 into 5 so it looks like this:
id:5:initdefault:

restart and you should be good to go

[dkeav]

that is taking for granted that you have a display manager installed, such as KDM for the kde environment, you might have to install that first

[quip]

Calipso: Slackware uses 4 as the graphical runlevel, not 5 like the others. Other than that, the advice will work.

Dkeav: On all of my default installs, gdm, kdm, and xdm get installed. Slack's rc.4 script checks for each, and runs the first one it finds, in the order I specified.

[Calipso]

Slackware uses 4 as the graphical runlevel

ooops pardon my ignorance. Ive never used a slackware based distro yet. Plan on trying Vector soon though.

[quip]

No problem....I think if you search through the forums here, I made the same mistake a while back. :D

Vector's nice, btw. I used it on a ftp server once...

[Sl4ker]

That worked! Thanks for the help!

[psych-major]

On a related note, if KDE gets hung up, you can restart it by pressing CTL+ALT+BACKSPACE, or you can also get a text console by pressing CTL+ALT+F2. Then ALT+F7 to get back to KDE.