Java Desktop Application

[nicolas_meteyer]

Hello,

I'm currently in work placement and i have to develop a fullscreen GUI Java application. I'm working under a redhat 4 with gnome and here is what i'd like to do :

1. Launch a session automatically without typing password.
2. Not launching gnome.
3. Lauching my java app automatically.

the automatic login is OK, and the automatic launch of my app too.
My problem is to avoid the gdm launch

Does anybody have any idea ?

Thanks a lot,

[Rubberman]

The gdm is started when the system is moved to runlevel 5. You need to edit /etc/inittab and change the default runlevel to 3 (multi-user, no x-login).

[nicolas_meteyer]

Hello,

Thank you for your answer

When i put the runlevel 3 in my inittab, gnome is indeed not running and X isn't running too.I tried to replace the prefdm gdm by xdm but i loose my auto-login provided by gnome .

I just want to launch my java application when the computer starts without logging. This is a touchscreen computer without keyboard, that's why i wanna avoid the login ^^.

Thanks for reading me !

[Rubberman]

Do you want to run your application as something other than root? In any case, you would boot into runlevel 1, 2, or 3 depending upon whether or not you want to run in singler user mode (runlevel 1 - no login required), multi-user mode without network (runlevel 2 - get text login prompt), or multi-user mode with network (runlevel 3 - get text login prompt). You would add your bootup script to /etc/rc.d/rc.local in which you would run startx to start the x-server and your user application. See the man page for the startx command. It has a lot of details how to start it up appropriately.