[ILUG] How do I start X/KDE straight after boot?

[Kae Verens]

Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After getting my command line system installed on my EEE, I installed KDE trunk packages from Project Neon. The packages install to /opt/kde-nightly/
> 
> After adding /opt/kde-nightly/bin to my PATH, I can boot up, login, do startx followed by startkde and I'm running a KDE session. I'd prefer to be presented with kdm after boot and log into that.
> 
> I'm guessing I need to put X and KDM into some startup script, or X needs to be configured in some way to use KDM. Anyone know?

check /etc/innittab - is the boot level set to 3? if so, change it to 5 - that should boot into some *DM (xdm, gdm, kdm).

if it's already set to 5 but not booting, a quick hack would be to tell the system to run kdm after the system boots - 
add "kdm &" to the end of /etc/rc.local

I'm sure there are correct ways to do it, but those two spring to mind from the available info.

kae