Help with X server

[sixstringartist]

Hello,

Ive been using Debian for a few months now. Initially I had a full install on my laptop so I am familiar with KDE, but I also installed debian on a server and declined to install an X server because I did not intend to have a monitor or keyboard hooked up to it. Well, my needs have changed and I would like to install KDE on my server, except Im not having much luck with it.

I tried to install KDE. That seemed to go well, but it doesnt load KDE on startup nor can I figure out how to load it from console. I thought I may be missing some key program that runs behind KDE so I tried installing anything that sounded like what I needed such as x11. Obviously I dont know what Im doing. What am I missing here?

[daark.child]

Try

aptitude install x-window-system kde kdm

To start KDE at boot time, do

#update-rc.d -f kdm defaults

[sixstringartist]

that did it. Thanks!

I think the missing link was kdm.

[sixstringartist]

How might one disable kdm from initializing on boot? I'd like to keep it in init.d so I can use "/etc/init.d/kdm start" whenever I want, but I'd like it to default to disabled.

[vooose]

To stop kdm starting up change the name of the link in

/etc/rc2.d/S30kdm

to

/etc/rc2.d/K70kdm

or something similar.

This assumes 2 is your default runlevel. (which it most likely is)

You can find your runlevel by doing:

cat /etc/inittab | grep initdefault