Re: Display issues
On 13 May, Pollywog wrote:
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> On 13-May-99 Brian Servis wrote:
>> So they(.xinitrc and .xsession) are the same but originated from
>> different camps(startx and xdm). The Debian way is to use .xsession.
>> To be safe you can soft link .xinitrc to .xsession.
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> I dislike having xdm start when I start the machine, so I removed the xdm
> stuff from init. Then, much to my surprise, kdm started when I started the
> machine, so I removed that from init. All is well now, and I get a plain,
> simple console, just the way I like it.
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> I will put .xinitrc back, just to be safe.
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> thanks
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What you're supposed to do, really, is change the file /etc/inittab and
set the default runlevel to 2 ( I think that is the runlevel for non-X
startup, and 3 the runlevel for startup with X) :-)
Regards and happy hacking,
--Tim :-)
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