Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get KDE to start on boot?

2006-11-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:24:25 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > Well, Gentoo is also about choice, so do it your way, > but very occasionally there is a need to do things outside X > & your previous & my own continuing approach preserves that option. As it's only "very occasionally", why not set up a ne

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get KDE to start on boot?

2006-11-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/14/06, Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This seems like a newb question. I've been using my Gentoo for a few years now, and since X/KDE/Gnome/etc. never seemed to be quite stable, I always booted into command lines and then manually 'startx' JICSH. But I find myself almost always

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get KDE to start on boot?

2006-11-14 Thread Philip Webb
061114 Daevid Vincent wrote: > I've been using my Gentoo for a few years > and since X/KDE/Gnome/etc never seemed to be quite stable, > I always booted into command lines and then manually 'startx' JICSH. This is what I've been doing for > 3 years quite happily. It seems more in the true spirit

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get KDE to start on boot?

2006-11-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:32:10 -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: > # Default runlevel. > id:5:initdefault: > # That was '3' before and I thought I remembered it was supposed to be > '5' ?! It should be 3. The Red Hat derived distros use runlevel 5 for a graphical boot, Gentoo uses level 3 and controls w

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get KDE to start on boot?

2006-11-14 Thread Craig Michael Wayman
Hi, This is what I use to start kde on boot. I let the xdm startup script launch kdm for me. localhost ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/xdm # Tell X to always start on VT7. Otherwise it autodetects the first available # VT, which means it has to wait until all gettys are started so it doesn't suck # up a VT

[gentoo-user] How do I get KDE to start on boot?

2006-11-14 Thread Daevid Vincent
This seems like a newb question. I've been using my Gentoo for a few years now, and since X/KDE/Gnome/etc. never seemed to be quite stable, I always booted into command lines and then manually 'startx' JICSH. But I find myself almost always doing that these days, so I suppose it's time to make the