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runlevel 4 98 43.17%
startx 125 55.07%
X? Console is all I ever need 4 1.76%
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Old 10-22-2009, 02:55 PM   #16
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startx
 
Old 10-22-2009, 03:05 PM   #17
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Uh...errrr...flushes the toilet??
Heh-heh, funny stuff.
 
Old 10-22-2009, 04:01 PM   #18
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Uh...errrr...flushes the toilet??
Not now, but with a wet-wifi interface there is no limit to what we could do!
But we would need a better name than 'Flushable Linux'!
 
Old 10-22-2009, 04:05 PM   #19
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startx - I used to have problems with ATI drivers so it was more convenient for me. Now, it's just a habit.
 
Old 10-22-2009, 04:11 PM   #20
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startx for me. Since I tried my first time installing drivers and editing xorg.conf and messed it up... Since then it's just a habit. If it ain't broken, don't fix it! ehehe
 
Old 10-22-2009, 04:17 PM   #21
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On the main laptop, I boot into runlevel 3, where I, my wife, and my daughter are auto-logged in and separate x sessions are started for each of us - flux for me, xfce for wifey and daughter.

On a guest machine, it's booted into rl3, autologged-in to a flux box session.

Same with the two home theatre boxes.

A fifth machine, which runs rtorrent and squid-privoxy, stays in rl3 with no x.

cheers,
 
Old 10-22-2009, 04:27 PM   #22
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runlevel 4 (or whichever it's in opensuse that autostarts X11).
 
Old 10-22-2009, 04:46 PM   #23
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runlevel 4.
 
Old 10-22-2009, 04:50 PM   #24
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"alienBOB"!? We have an impostor!
 
Old 10-22-2009, 04:57 PM   #25
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runlevel 4
With an init 3 option in grub.
 
Old 10-22-2009, 05:19 PM   #26
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I used to have runlevel 3. I've got runlevel 3 on my laptop, but runlevel 4 on the stationary computer. I usually have two or three x sessions. The login manager is there, just "reserved" for.. I don't know.. My girlfriend used it sometimes to login to kde and automount stuff, but now as dolphin can do the same thing in fluxbox, I guess it isn't needed. I got one x session with two screens, but that isn't working with wacom, so I have another session for drawing.
 
Old 10-22-2009, 05:55 PM   #27
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startob to go into openbox...
startdwm...
startother "other wm here", if I really feel like a change...
Or startdvtm, but that's not X...
 
Old 10-22-2009, 06:12 PM   #28
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runlevel 3 and startx.
 
Old 10-22-2009, 06:45 PM   #29
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Where's the option for both
startx on my netbook, runlevel 4/kdm on my desktop.
 
Old 10-22-2009, 06:49 PM   #30
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I do not edit my /etc/inittab. I put two entries in my GRUB menu.lst file for the partition I want to boot. The entries are identical, except one of them ends in " 4". This one is the GUI stanza, the other is CLI.
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