X question

[Justin Bennett]

Yes if I boot into runlevel 5, I'm running Redhat 7.3, GDM runs to
login, is there a configfile for GDM to just have it login?

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 09:13, Robert Meyer wrote:
> Well, in Mandrake, you can tell the machine to come up in init
> level 5 which means automatically start X and put up an xdm
> (kdm?) display manager to ask for username and password.
> You can also tell Mandrake to automatically log in the X session
> as some user.  This should take care of what you're looking for.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Bob
> --- Justin Bennett <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com> wrote:
> > Ok got a silly one, I have a libretto, I want it to boot up, login as a
> > user (non-root) and then startx. It's my mp3 player for my stereo.
> > Trying to run a su -c user startx from /etc/rc.d/rc.local I don't have
> > console ownership and it dies. Anybody got an idea?
> > 
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Justin Bennett
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