On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, King Beowulf wrote:

> This is why I never use graphical logons.  'xwmconfg' only works under
> runlevel 3 when using CLI logon and then 'startx'

Ed,

   I don't use 'em, either. The Sony is used by my friend who prefers the GUI
logon. The other advantage of the GUI is that the user can reboot or halt
the system without knowing root's password or being a sudouser.

> If you used any kdm/gdm/xdm etc (graphical display managers) for login,
> they have their own config files.  Xfce doesn't ship with one.  Thus, if
> you set runlevel 4, Xfce doesn't know what to do. Since you had KDE
> installed, KDE *does* know what to do with runlevel 4 as it ships with a
> GUI logon manager - which is set by default to load KDE regardless of what
> xwmconfig sets.

   Interesting. It did not intrude until today's bunch of package upgrades.

> Since you dumped KDE, runlevel 4 now looks for xdm (part of X11)- an
> older more primitive display manager.

> /etc/X11/xdm

   Ah! That's where it is. I completely forgot its location.

Thanks,

Rich

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