On Monday, April 14th, 2025 at 10:45 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, Ben Koenig wrote: > > > Have you configured this laptop for graphical login? Run level 4? This > > would have been set in /etc/inittab: > > > Ben, > > No. Whatever was the installation default. > > > # These are the default runlevels in Slackware: > > # 0 = halt > > # 1 = single user mode > > # 2 = unused (but configured the same as runlevel 3) > > # 3 = multiuser mode (default Slackware runlevel) > > # 4 = X11/Wayland with SDDM/KDM/GDM/XDM (session managers) > > # 5 = unused (but configured the same as runlevel 3) > > # 6 = reboot > > > Huh! I have always used runlevel 3; wasn't aware of 4 and that's what should > be used on this laptop. > > > # Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6) > > id:3:initdefault: > > > On the laptop, /etc/inittab shows: > id:4:initdefault: > > Thanks, > > Rich Ah Ha! That explains a lot. since runlevel 4 is set, when you restart slackware will automatically launch sddm, which is the display manager for KDE. Jonathan was probably right at the beginning of this thread since in runlevel 4 all that xinitrc stuff will be ignored. So for this laptop, ignore xwmconfig and just use the dropdown menu from the bottom-left-hand side of the login screen. It *should* remember your setting here. -Ben
