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I was having an issue with XDM not starting my session whenever I used any kind of dhcp client so I have been using startx with fvwm2 in the .xinitrc ...
  1. 12-31-2009 #1
    muton
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    startx as normal user from runlevel 4 script

    I was having an issue with XDM not starting my session whenever I used any kind of dhcp client so I have been using startx with fvwm2 in the .xinitrc file. I put 'su - matthew -c "startx" &> /dev/null' in /etc/rc.d/rc.4, but to me this seems like the wrong way of doing this. Is there any better way to set the environment and run startx as a normal user at boot?

    I'm on Slackware 13.0 if you know anything about the XDM issue
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    Why not just log in at a console and then type startx? That's the simplest way.
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    I prefer starting in X, it's usually straight to the web with me.
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