I've just installed Slackware 10. My PC boots into the login screen rather into the display manager screen. I have to type in "root", followed by my password and then "kdm". I would like my PC to boot right into kdm or gdm. I have tried running xwmconfig but it does work. How do get my PC to boot into the kdm or gdm display manager?

Thanks.

open /etc/inittab . Change this:

To this:

Done deal.

To start kdm automatically make your /etc/rc.d/rc.4 file look like mine below

justin@lola:~$ cat /etc/rc.d/rc.4
#! /bin/sh
#
# rc.4 This file is executed by init(8) when the system is being
# initialized for run level 4 (XDM)
#
# Version: @(#)/etc/rc.d/rc.4 2.00 02/17/93
#
# Author: Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>
# At least 47% rewritten by: Patrick J. Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com>
#

# Tell the viewers what's going to happen...
echo "Starting up X11 session manager..."

# Try to use GNOME's gdm session manager:
#if [ -x /usr/bin/gdm ]; then
# exec /usr/bin/gdm -nodaemon
#fi

# Not there? OK, try to use KDE's kdm session manager:
if [ -x /opt/kde/bin/kdm ]; then
exec /opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon
fi

# If all you have is XDM, I guess it will have to do:
if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ]; then
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon
fi

# error
echo
echo "Hey, you don't have KDM, GDM, or XDM. Can't use runlevel 4 without"
echo "one of those installed."
sleep 30

# All done.


Open it in your favorite text editor and comment out the gdm line. Save and reboot. Bam, KDM.

Out.

Thanks justin_p and shilo! It worked.