Wouter Vijvers wrote:
> Hi all,
Hello.
>
> I'm relatively new to blackbox and I have a question about booting into
> blackbox. Currently, I have the following setup: RH 6.0 install, BB version
> 0.60.3 (about to update it to 0.61.0), previous WM was KDE 1.2 (on a P60
> with 24MB (wicked machine ;) )). Right now I boot the comp in runlevel 3,
> log in and type startx. I have the line "blackbox" at the end of my
> /$HOME/.xinitrc file. What I would like to do is boot into runlevel 5 and
> log in with the WM running (just as in KDE). When I switch to runlevel 5
> now, the X-server starts, but BB isn't loaded (I just get the standard
> background with the X cursor) and I have to Cntr-Alt-Backspace to kill it
> and get back into runlevel 3.
hmmmm.... have you tried using xdm etc. to log in? i think the reason that
you were able to do
that with kde, is due to some weird kdm thing. dunno though.
> Is it possible to do what I want to do? (Common sense says it should be.) Do
> I have to add "blackbox" somewhere into /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc or
> /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients or is it something else? BTW, FYI, I used to have a
> /etc/sysconfig/desktop file with KDE in it, but I removed the line in it.
> Didn't help, though. I read on Dan Williams' page (in the KBB HOWTO) that I
> could edit the startkde file. Will that solution maybe help (I want to put
> in KDE-support anyway, so I think I will try it anyway)?
>
> Thanks and regards (and sorry for all the brackets),
> Wouter
