xwindows login

xwindows login

[Sagar N Chand]

I've recently installed Mandrake on my system.
Everything is well and good. But by default it is going
into xwindows for the login. I changed the runlevel to 3 in the
etc\inittab file and now it is showing the login in the console
mode only. Is there any other way to do this???

regards,
/sagar
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Re: xwindows login

[pa3gcu]

On Thursday 26 September 2002 13:56, Sagar N Chand wrote:
> I've recently installed Mandrake on my system.
> Everything is well and good. But by default it is going
> into xwindows for the login. I changed the runlevel to 3 in the
> etc\inittab file and now it is showing the login in the console
> mode only. Is there any other way to do this???

No that i know off, what is it you really want, you need to login one way or 
the other.

You can use both tho' simply use runlevel 4 or 5 (dont know what mandrake 
uses for X) after startup you can go to console mode with ctrl-alt-F6 and 
login on the console.
ctrl-alt-F2 to return to X.

>
> regards,
> /sagar

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Re: xwindows login

[Ray Olszewski]

At 04:03 PM 9/26/02 +0000, pa3gcu wrote:
>On Thursday 26 September 2002 13:56, Sagar N Chand wrote:
> > I've recently installed Mandrake on my system.
> > Everything is well and good. But by default it is going
> > into xwindows for the login. I changed the runlevel to 3 in the
> > etc\inittab file and now it is showing the login in the console
> > mode only. Is there any other way to do this???
>
>No that i know off, what is it you really want, you need to login one way or
>the other.
>
>You can use both tho' simply use runlevel 4 or 5 (dont know what mandrake
>uses for X) after startup you can go to console mode with ctrl-alt-F6 and
>login on the console.
>ctrl-alt-F2 to return to X.

I missed this one first time through. Richard's solution is a correct one, 
but there may be another, depending on what *exactly* you mean by "do this".

The other possible solution to running both consoles and X is to start in 
runlevel 3, then log into a console and start X manually. You usually do 
this with the command "startx", which is a shell script that sets up some 
stuff, then calls xinit, the binary that actually starts X. I don't know if 
a standard Mandrake install sets up startx or if you will need to do some 
setup manually.

If you do it this way, X will most likely be running on console 7, with tty 
consoles running on 1-6. As with Richard's approach, you use CTRL-ALT-F7 
(or just ALT-F7)  to get to X, and CTRL-ALT-F1 to -F6 to get back to the 
consoles from the X display. (That is, if X is on the displa,y you need 
CTRL-ALT-Fsomething to switch, but from a command-line tty you can use 
either CRTL-ALT-Fsomething or ALT-Fsomething to switch consoles).

This is what I catually do on my workstations, BTW ... but I happen not to 
like xdm as a login mechanism.
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Re: xwindows login

[lawson_whitney]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Sagar N Chand wrote:

> I've recently installed Mandrake on my system.
> Everything is well and good. But by default it is going
> into xwindows for the login. I changed the runlevel to 3 in the
> etc\inittab file and now it is showing the login in the console
> mode only. Is there any other way to do this???
>
> regards,
> /sagar

Yes.  At runlevel 5, control-alt-F1 through F6 should bring you to a
text login, unless Mandrake has gone off the deep end since I messed
with it.  You know you can start X from runlevel 3 with startx or xinit,
right?  The user who starts X owns that session(s).  Another user could
start X on a different display (virtual console) with, say,

xinit -- 1:

That would typically run on tty8, reachable with control-alt-F8, instead
of tty7.

Lawson
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Re: xwindows login

[Heimo Claasen]

Ydes, Mandrake is usually well behaved (if you don't miss the -
clearly and understandably worded - selection step whith installing)
and starts up with a txt console, asks for the login, and then starts
whatever GUI chosen with "startx".

And so did Debian - hitherto: Now, with a new install of DEB 3.0 it
goes mandatory into X, and does the login there too.

I could _not_ find the place anywhere in the various "init" files where
the runlevel, or the (automatic) startup of the window manager is
defined.  It's not where it was with earlier DEB installs.
Apparently, this has changed places, and there's no information in the
number of READMEs and the like (at least, not in one of those where I
tried to find it).

// Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2002-09-27
The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read  ==>  http://www.revobild.net

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Re: xwindows login

[a.c.labij]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Sagar N Chand wrote:

> I've recently installed Mandrake on my system.
> it is going into xwindows for the login. I changed the runlevel to 3 in
> the  etc\inittab file ... Is there any other way to do this???

In textmode %linuxconf , go to boot , go to default boot mode, change
default operation mode with <space> .

adriaan




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