So I need to change the line that callse prefdm to start in runlevel 3
and then let prefdm and /etc/sysconfic/desktop start AnotherLevel?  

If I want to start with KDE rather than Gnome, is there another step?

Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
> 
> Change
> 
> x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
> 
> to
> 
> x:3:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
> 
> in /etc/inittab to get it to run in runlevel 3.  You might also remove the
> "-nodaemon".
> 
> If you're using gdm, you also need to set
> 
> Enable=true
> 
> under the [xdmcp] section of /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
> 
> This is all from memory, so it may not be entirely accurate, but give it a
> try.
> 
> Jon
> 
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Janyne Kizer wrote:
> 
> > I am using XDM/XDMCP to connnect some NCD terminals to an RH 7.2 machine
> > and I would like for Linux to automatically start XDM and accept XDMCP
> > requests on bootup.  This seems like it should be simple enough but I am
> > stuck.  I have everything configured and working fine in runlevel 3 but
> > I have to login as root and manually start XDM from the prompt. When I
> > change to runlevel 5, the server does not accept XDMCP requests.  The
> > documentation I found at
> > 
>http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.1-Manual/zseries-install-guide/s1-guimode-sysadmin.html
> > does not seem to do the trick either.  I'm sure that I am missing
> > something simple but I can't figure it out.  Any assistance would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Janyne
> >
> >
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