[techtalk] along the lines of "can I change my mind?"

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"On the other hand, if you want to start xdm (X display manager,
I think; anyway, the thing that does the start-X-automatically),
you do have to be root."

-What does this do exactly?  Is this where changes need to be made to 
control which GUI boots?


"The file you're looking for is /etc/inittab.  There is a line about halfway
down the file that controls the startup run level.  On a Mandrake system,
set this to 3 to boot into the command line.  It should currently be a 5 if
you boot into X.

    to start X later, type startx at the command line.   pretty sure you
have to do that as root, though I may be wrong."

-these are some very good ideas!  When you say "starting x" does that mean 
that you are starting xwindows or that you are starting the default GUI from 
a command line?


I have a coworker running Red Hat 6.0, and gnome automatically boots up.  He 
would like to change this to boot to another GUI such as KDE, but is still 
unsure which one he would like.  What is the name of the file that controls 
this?  I have this option in Mandrake 6.0 (to choose the GUI to load), but 
don't know enough about the operating system to identify the correct file 
that controls this.  If anyone knows, I would like to know if there is a 
different file/location for Mandrake as well so that I can play around with 
this option too.  Thanks so much!  :)

-Clair



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