Re: how to setup KDE or Gnome

["A.E.Lawrence" <A.E.Lawrence@lboro.ac.uk>]

Jo Shields wrote:
> A.E.Lawrence wrote:
> 
>> Nobody has mentioned /etc/inittab in this thread so far.
>>
>> ISTR that I just had to assign a run level to include kde/gdm/whatever.
>>
>> Runlevel 2 is usually  kept for text alone which is very useful indeed
>> when your GUI goes belly up.
>>
>> ael
> 
> 
> That's a redhatism. Debian runs at runlevel 2 by default, including
> graphical stuff.

That is what I expected, but not what seemed to have been installed.
Perhaps a broken package. But a small adjustment on inittab and the
right links in the /etc/rcn.d directories fixed the problems which
others seem to be reporting...

Since the GUI does seem to get broken rather often, I value a text only
runlevel ...

ael