so if .xinitrc does not exist, just create it and everything should work

thats a great thread by the way. i have read through it a few times,

I'm getting spoiled by your wise advice, guys. He he.. just kidding... Feel free to advise as much as you want...

Everything worked so far.

Macondo: I tested. I have gnome installed and i didn't know that. The other desktop managers (ice, sawfish, twm...) seem to be either wmaker clones, or very very similar to wmaker. So, I have total kde, gnome, wmaker and its breed, and text-only. Very happy with that!

Kdm also works perfectly. I learned how to modprobe the correct options for my tv card, which works with radio included. Modprobed my sensors, working well, too.

However, I seem to lack basic understanding on how debian manages runlevels. Can you guys point me to a good resource about it?

Is it possible to go from rl2 to 5 by skipping rl3?

One issue arised: with kdm installed, my system no longer inserts 8139too driver. It boots directly to rl5 without network. I am modprobing it mannually. I am comfortable with creating scripts, but the mess I did in the boot sequence seems to be due to my incomplete understanding of it.

Again, thank you all a lot! My debian install moved forward big, in the last five days!

jsmarshall85:

i'm glad you like it, i put it in the Tutorials (applications/gui/multimedia) section at the top of the page.

bruno:

1. google.com/linux (configura preferences em portugues, espanhol e inglés)
2. man
3. linuxquestions.org search
4. IRC #debian, #linuxhelp, #debian-br, #debian-es, #debian-kde, #gnome #wmaker

I saw that. Didn't read all the links, but I will.

jsmarshall85,

You can start your window manager from ~/.xsession That's where I start it.


bruno buys,

The Debian default is runlevel 2. 3-5 are user configurable. Install rcconf
apt-get install rcconf
This will give you more of a gui way to configure a runlevel. Just be sure and not turn off any service you may need.

There is a line in /etc/inittab that determines which runlevel the system will start in. An example is
id:2:initdefault: