Gnopernicus messages

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Sat Nov 6 12:18:15 EST 2004


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To add to your third option, couldn't you also set the default run
level on a specific tty line via the inittab file? Example, have tty6
set default run level to whatever X uses? I'm about to take the plunge
this week and see if I can give gnopernicus a go.

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:45:25PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> You'll hear a beep from your pc speaker once gdm is ready for you to
> login. Keep in mind though that if you're starting x from a text
> console using startx, you'll be bypassing gdm, because you're already
> logged in. It all depends on how you want to start x. You can either
> use startx from the shell prompt in a text console, if you feel brave,
> you can change your default run level, so that your distro boots
> directly into x and gdm, or you can do what I like to do, which is to
> use telinit as root to switch manually to the default run level for
> x. What I like about the third method is that I can still be in text
> mode by default when the box boots, but if I want to use x, I can
> start with a fresh login session, as if my box had booted directly
> into x and gdm. Hth.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 03:26:15PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > How would I know I was at a login prompt in X so that I could start gnopernicus?
> 
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