On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 04:09 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > I'm looking at what I might test when we get to 7.6. I've > repartitioned to get what to me seem enormous root fs's (15GB, with > the sources elsewhere), and we have a lot of things I've never tried, > so I thought I would try lxde - principally to test lxdm (if I do > get round to putting LFS on my netbook, I'll need a graphical login > to simplify controlling sleep and the network). For lxdm, the only > reference to a bootscript I can find is > > |You can manually start lxdm, e.g, if the bootscript has been > |installed, by running, as root user: > |/etc/rc.d/init.d/lxdm start > > I thought this was a case ofi accidentally forgetting to reference > the bootscript (compare e.g. cups) on this page, but looking in the > 20140827 bootscripts I cannot see any obvious target for lxdm ? > > Compparing other DMs, we (still) have a bootscript for gdm, but for > kdm we do things differently: > > |cat >> /etc/inittab << EOF > |kd:5:respawn:/opt/kde/bin/kdm > |EOF > > and > |sed -i 's#id:3:initdefault:#id:5:initdefault:#' /etc/inittab > > I know we tend to do things differently to show the possible > variations, but should be have a bootscript for lxde, and if not > should we do it like kdm ? > > Confused. > > ĸen > -- > Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. > Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m.
Hello Ken, The bootscript should already be there as both Fernando and Bruce worked on it. The systemd version of lxdm provides a native unit file. Regards, Christopher. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
