Re: confusion over the ways to start an X session

From: yan (yan_at_ssafdaspam-b13.net)
Date: 07/22/03 

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:38:42 GMT

On 22 Jul 2003 13:28:48 GMT, Alex Yung <alyung@lucent.com> wrote:

> yan (yan@ssafdaspam-b13.net) wrote:
> : Hi,
>
> : I've searched all over for answers to this simple question:
>
> : After installing Debian Woody, my machine boots to a text login. Login
> : fine, type startx and it runs up a nice kde gui for me. I wanted X to
> start : automatically found out how to modify .xinitrc, but I found that
> starting : it that way it ran twm as the gui??
>
> : I have xdm, kdm and xdm all installed, but xdm runs twm, I don't like
> gdm, : and although kdm appears to be started shortly before I get to the
> login : prompt, it boots no gui at all?
>
> : The basic question is, where are the display manager and startx :
> configurations stored?
>
> : Thanks for any illumination on this,
>
> : yan
>
> The easiest solution would be un-installing xdm then let your system
> start kdm. The default only allows 1 dm to start. In your basic
> question, you can look into the directory "/etc/X11". It has most of
> the X configuration there. For KDE, you look into "/etc/kde${X}"
> where ${X} can be 2 or 3 depending on your installation.

Thanks Alex,

I'll try uninstalling xdm (and gdm for the hell of it) and see if kdm then
succeeds in booting a gui for me.

> I started running kdm over vnc recently. It worked out very well so
> that I don't need any Xserver in Windows. VNCviewer is a tiny program
> which still fits into a floppy.

Don't quite get what you've got set up here. I thought VNC just hooked into
whatever display systemthe server was running on? Also I had no idea that
there's an Xserver available for Windows! How does kdm allow you to do away
with it?

yan 

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