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Bill Kendrick wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 11:12:26AM -0700, Bob Blick wrote:
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<pre wrap="">If I started X with "sudo gdm" I pretty much got a normal X experience,
but some things are missing like the user-switching thing that displays
your name at the upper right. I also felt uneasy having to use sudo to
start gdm.
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I remember old, old RedHat used 'runlevels' to bring X up.
('runlevel 5' was X, 'runlevel 2' or '3' was console-only)
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Not so old: It's still there in Fedora 10. <br>
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Does Ubuntu not have an /etc/inittab file?<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Ubuntu, I think you can simply remove the symlink to
'/etc/init.d/gdm' from your '/etc/rc4.d/' (I use Kubuntu, so I actually
have an "S30kdm" in there... it's probably something like "S30gdm").
Then use:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start
rather than:
sudo gdm
to turn X and GDM back on...
Maybe?
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