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From: Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:26:59
Message-Id: 68b1e2610810151126n7eed9fb5re27619cfa114bd7f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 Hello,
2
3 On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:14 PM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
4 > The login manager slim, which is started in daemon mode,
5 > get killed when X is left by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
6 > (zapping X) -- there is a fallback to the login of the
7 > root console instead of getting a new login screen of slim.
8 >
9 > How can I prevent this?
10 >
11 I use
12 x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >% /dev/null
13 in /etc/inittab, instead of /etc/init.d/xdm. This seems to solve the
14 issue. SLiM 1.3.1 seems a bit buggy, however, on Gentoo (although
15 didn't try on other distributions). Version 1.3.0 was more stable.
16
17 Regards,
18 Liviu

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