[techtalk] Gnome and Redhat 6.1 woes

[Robert Wade]

I don't think this user wants to get rid of gdm, as your method would do,
but instead just change her window manager (or get rid of gnome-session
is, I've not used gnome for a while, but I think it's the thingie that
starts gnome) and if xterm starts when user gets into the window manager.

On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Lilly S. wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Britta Koch wrote:
 
> > b) What is the file where I tell gdm (or x) what programs to start? Is
> > it .Xclients, .xinitrc or .xsessionrc? And can I stop it from starting
> > gnome-session?
> 
> It in /etc/inittab. If you vi it, you'll see an entry like this:
> 
> #Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
> #  0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> #  1 - Single user mode
> #  2 - Multiuser, withut NFS
> #  3 - Full multiuser mode
> #  4 - unused
> #  5 - X11
> #  6 - reboot
> #
> ....
> id:5:initdefault:
> 
> Change the last line to say 
> 
> id:3:initdefault or 2 depending on your NFS.