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Hey guys, now I'm used to suse linux, and this is all very strange to me. In suse, runlevel 5 means to start a session manager, and X. 3 is multiuser without the GUI. Now, in runlevel 5, all the terminals are open, 1-6 and 7 being the X server. But in slack, I have found that runlevel 4 is the equivilant of 5, the X server loads on tty1, and only tty6 is open.

However, if I were to use runlevel 3 and the startx command - I may not have a graphical selection of window managers, but all the terminals work, 1 is for messages and 7 is the X server.

What's going on here, and how can I make this more like I'm used to? I love my gui session managers, and this almost makes me want to use suse just for them.

I believe that Pat has an answer for you, if you read /etc/inittab through...

Quote:

# Runlevel 4 used to be for an X window only system, until we discovered
# that it throws init into a loop that keeps your load avg at least 1 all
# the time. Thus, there is now one getty opened on tty6. Hopefully no one
# will notice. ;^)
# It might not be bad to have one text console anyway, in case something
# happens to X.
x1:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc.4

:D

In all seriousness, I was a bit surprised at the choice of which runlevel was what when I switched to slack, but then I realised that it's arbitrary anyway, and since Slack works, who am I to mess with it? If you really want, you can change the part of inittab I just posted so that it's runlevel 5, but it really doesn't change anything.