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i am using slackware 9.0. i have some doubts regarding slackware
1. how do i enable anti-aliased fonts in slackware. I tried the gnome font settings, but in vain.
I am really switching to slackware from mandrake but i am greatly missing such a cool stuff.
2. why do i don't see any vitual terminals on switching to initlevel:4 except X (vt 7). But all the 6 terminals are there when initlevel is 3 (no gui)
3. On initlevel:4 "gdm" is automatically starting up. Since mine is a single user system. I don't want to start my favourite wm(xfce4) through gdm. I wanted to start it directly. How do I do it?
4. "mysql.server start" isn't seems to be working. it exits abruptly. no messages were printed. what might be the problem. i tried a lot hacking into my box, but atlast i booted into mandrake for that. ;-(
Thanks in advance ..... ;-)
Last edited by sridharinfinity; 10-25-2003 at 08:32 AM.
Originally posted by digiot For 2 and 3, just put the runlevel back to the default of 3 in /etc/inittab. Then do 'xwmconfig' to pick xfce once and run 'startx' ever after.
when i tried to run 'xwmconfig' it gave me command not found error. or in short in which slackware package i can find 'xwmconfig'. i have recently installed xfce4 (www.xfce.org) how can i make sure that xwmconfig will list my new wm also?
It's part of pkgtools and is in /usr/X11R6/bin/. You aren't doing this as root, are you? It's a per user script and you'd probably have to give the full path as root since Slack doesn't include that in root's path.
As far as whether it will list it, I think it just picks it up but, if not, you could just copy one of the others and change the 'exec' line and rename it. Or just edit your own ~/.xinitrc, though that would get overwritten if you switched wm's again.
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