How do I make GDM Greeter the default

[trilarian]

Basically that. I can login then as root run gdm to login again. I have a lot of themes for gdm that look cool. I would like to make GDM start when linux boots so that I only log in once. Any ideas? Thanks.

[mdwatts]

You need to change the runlevel.

http://linuxnewbie.org/nhf/X_Window/Booting_Into_GUI.html

[trilarian]

I already have my run level set to boot into graphical. That NHF just says you can use gdm but does not say how.

[Spoticus]

Not sure which distro you're running, but edit the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop (hopefully that exists for you) so that it reads:
DESKTOP=gdm

[pbharris]

hello,
if all that fails edit you /etc/inittab fail and have it look something like this:


x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/gdm -nodaemon


This of course assumes that the runlevel 5 is used and is intended to used for graphical loggin.

[trilarian]

Thanks both of you. The latter did it for me. Now I don't have to see that boring blue screen. FYI I'm using Mandrake 9.0.