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Yeah honestly, i would think it depends on your distro. Redhat.. startx is pretty much initiated right away well.. depending on the version .. for 8.0 it does ;]
Originally posted by Crunch Yeah honestly, i would think it depends on your distro. Redhat.. startx is pretty much initiated right away well.. depending on the version .. for 8.0 it does ;]
Not exactly. Fire up a text editor, or just a terminal type:
less /etc/inittab
There is the defined run levels. You can change which is your default one, and then it doesn't initiate it right away, you boot into text and then startx.
Distribution: Red Hat 8.0, Slackware 8.1, Knoppix 3.7, Lunar 1.3, Sorcerer
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Originally posted by linuxlah Does init 5 call startx? If yes when or where does it do it? Thanks in advance.
No, it does not. The 2 ways that an X server can be started are..
1) call xinit - called internally when you type in startx from runlevel 3
2) via the xdm server ( or similar - there is GDM/KDM, RH uses GDM ) which starts the X server in runlevel 5 and grants you a session if you have proper authentication credentials. See /etc/X11/gdm for configuration files. Also check out the GDM man page.
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well.. depending on the version .. for 8.0 it does ;]
