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I changed the default runlevel in inittab from 3 to 4 to start X immediately after reboot, but once the login screen appears it gets into a loop... I enter my username and password, after which fluxbox is supposed to start. it does seem to start but after halve a second the screen returns to the login screen... and when I login a second time, it does the same: there seems to be some kind of login loop. It doesn.t seem to read the xinitrc file properly.
But then this, when I start the comp.The strange thing is, when I'm in runlevel 3 and I manually start X (startx) there is no problem.
Somewhere between authenticating and starting fluxbox there seems to be a problem...
I tried to edit the X init files and everything, but I can.t get it to work... and I don.t understand why runlevel 4 doesn.t work from after boot, when it does work from the commandline.
that is not the case, I only have 1 xinitrc
but I am pretty sure that the problem is related to XDM. It does not initialise fluxbox. Any ideas how to solve this problem? I tried to replace xsm in Xsession with fluxbox, but it doesn.t work...
I have to specify my window manager somehow, but I don.t know how...
Namaseit is correct. Many people have two, the first being the system wide default, for users who dont have one in ~/, and the second (in ~/) overriding the first, if its there.
startx does NOT initiate runlevel 4 or 5. It simply starts X from runlevel 3.
To avoid a nasty loop, before changing the runlevel in inittab, experiment by running from CLI:
init 4 until you get everything worked out, then change inittab. make sure your graphics card is correctly configured first to avoid the nasty loop.
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