On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 01:21:24PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear X people,
>
> Is it the case that when you run startx in a standard Linux environment e.g.
> Red Hat 7.1 that gdm is fired up if you are running gnome?
no. either you log in at a text console, and then use startx; or else you
log in with GDM, and that sends you directly to an X desktop.
> When I run xwindow as root everything workd fine, but as a regular user I
> seem to run a proxy window manager
no such thing as a 'proxy' window manager. whatever it is (probably
twm); it's just simpler than Gnome + Sawfish.
> I tried to fire up the system by typiing in gdm at start
> up instead of startx but the system said "only root wants to run gdm". I
> found gdm in /usr/bin and I changed the ownership from root ro the user
> hoping that I could run gdm directly but it made no difference.... How can
> I fix the problem?
think of gdm as a replacement for 'getty' (the program that takes
your username & password on the console). as such, RedHat starts it from
/etc/inittab. by default, on RH systems, it's started at runlevel 5.
Carl Soderstrom.
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