Starting kdm
Eric Schuele
e.schuele at computer.org
Mon Sep 19 19:21:19 PDT 2005
stan wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out the current way (on a 4.11 STABLE machine)
> of having kdm startup on boot. Surpisingly neither the handbook,
> nor a Google search really led me anywhere on this, and I don't
> see a script for this in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
>
> Do I put it in /etc/tys? If so what's teh proper invocation?
>
Handbook reads (I assume it applies to 4.11 as well):
5.7.3.1 The KDE Display Manager
...
<snip lots>
...
Now, make sure kdm is listed in /etc/ttys to be started at the next
bootup. To do this, simply follow the instructions from the previous
section on XDM and replace references to the /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm program
with /usr/local/bin/kdm.
"Previous Section" reads:
5.6.2 Using XDM
The XDM daemon program is located in /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm. This program
can be run at any time as root and it will start managing the X display
on the local machine. If XDM is to be run every time the machine boots
up, a convenient way to do this is by adding an entry to /etc/ttys. For
more information about the format and usage of this file, see Section
21.3.2.1. There is a line in the default /etc/ttys file for running the
XDM daemon on a virtual terminal:
ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure
By default this entry is disabled; in order to enable it change field 5
from off to on and restart init(8) using the directions in Section
21.3.2.2. The first field, the name of the terminal this program will
manage, is ttyv8. This means that XDM will start running on the 9th
virtual terminal.
HTH
--
Regards,
Eric
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