On Thursday 12 February 2004 01:25, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Hehe, looks you found it....forget my grumble, grumble mail on the /etc/innitab issue......sorry;)
> Thanks I am well acquainted with vi but not mc. Anyway it worked I loged > into a text screen issued startx, as me, and was automatically loged into > gnome. Took a minute and 24 sec to log out (the problem with gnome). Now > how do I get into KDE to reset the autologin mode? If/when youre in init 3 as su/root type "init 5" which should offer you a graphical login and an option to choose the windowmanager option. You could try typing "startkde" but I doubt if it'll work. If you want to have a choice of windowmanagers from the console install Xtart. "urpmi xtart". From gnome you should be able to open a control center session too. Open an xterm, and type "mcc" and you'll be prompted for the password if you aren't root. > I'm better acquanted with UNIX, as a user, on a desktop.(1975 version) > > > Luck needs to be pushed, > > Aint it the truth. > > A second question. Do you know of any text that explains how mandrake > works, I'v looked in amazon and on the site? I'm looking for something > mandrake specific. There used to be some tutorial demo's on the mandrake site, mostly 9.0 based. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/demos/ Take a look at http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/fdoc.php3 for .pdf/html files Beside that, Mandrake is a straightforward linux distrib and most of the solutions I've offered up to now wouldn't be much different on say a Slackware box. That's not counting the Mandrake specific tools or wizards of course. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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