Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console

Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@×××××.com> [08-10-16 03:54]:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:14 PM,  <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
> >  The login manager slim, which is started in daemon mode,
> >  get killed when X is left by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
> >  (zapping X) -- there is a fallback to the login of the
> >  root console instead of getting a new login screen of slim.
> >
> >  How can I prevent this?
> >
> I use
> x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >% /dev/null
> in /etc/inittab, instead of /etc/init.d/xdm. This seems to solve the
> issue. SLiM 1.3.1 seems a bit buggy, however, on Gentoo (although
> didn't try on other distributions). Version 1.3.0 was more stable.
>
> Regards,
> Liviu
>

I am using slim 1.3.0....
I will try the inittab-patch, but it is only a workaround.
By the way: Is there a way to use different backgrounds for
slim and the desktop. I am using Icewm and that background
was overwritten by slim...

Thanks a lot for your help!

KLind regards,
mcc

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