how to startup without a display manager
Tony Breeds
tony at bakeyournoodle.com
Mon Jun 30 23:39:00 UTC 2008
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 06:31:41PM -0500, Ted X Toth wrote:
> I want to play with Openbox on Fedora as a standalone window manager. Do
> I need to configure /etc/X11/prefdm to not start any display manager?
IIRC (it's been a while) You change the default init level from 5 to 3.
You can do this by either:
a) changing the "id" line of /etc/inittab from:
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:
and rebooting
or;
b) Appending a "3" to your kernel options, and rebooting.
That should leave you at a console login, from which you can startx
Yours Tony
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