From: Kenny Hitt <kenny@hittsjunk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: starting X was Re: about tty's in slackware 10
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 08:30:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040821133031.GB22987@blackbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040821124421.GC23796@gmx.net>
Hi. You're sending confusing and wrong information about how to start
an X session.
If you don't have a display manager running, you would use startx from
the console. If you have a display manager such as gdm running, you
would log in to the graphical console just the same as a normal user
login. Big hint, gdm stands for Gnome Display manager. If you want to
use both, you will have to make sure the startx command starts the X
session using a display not managed by the display manager.
Gdm beeps when it is ready for a user to login.
The default window manager for Gnome is metacity, not gdm.
Kenny
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 08:44:21AM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
> to start x, just run startx. when all activity stops ( your pc speaker
> may beep, I'm not sure) type your username. then hit enter, type your
> password, then enter again. if gdm is in fact your default window
> manager gnome should come up.
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