-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 To add to your third option, couldn't you also set the default run level on a specific tty line via the inittab file? Example, have tty6 set default run level to whatever X uses? I'm about to take the plunge this week and see if I can give gnopernicus a go. On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:45:25PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote: > You'll hear a beep from your pc speaker once gdm is ready for you to > login. Keep in mind though that if you're starting x from a text > console using startx, you'll be bypassing gdm, because you're already > logged in. It all depends on how you want to start x. You can either > use startx from the shell prompt in a text console, if you feel brave, > you can change your default run level, so that your distro boots > directly into x and gdm, or you can do what I like to do, which is to > use telinit as root to switch manually to the default run level for > x. What I like about the third method is that I can still be in text > mode by default when the box boots, but if I want to use x, I can > start with a fresh login session, as if my box had booted directly > into x and gdm. Hth. > > Greg > > > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 03:26:15PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > > How would I know I was at a login prompt in X so that I could start gnopernicus? > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org - -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://ld.net/?holmesgrown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBjQdWWSjv55S0LfERAuIyAJwPdezk0VofKx65IQPwFPyRNx18VwCgsXE4 lgdxrKnH61cvM2ZPYS9HL+I= =n4oH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
