setting up startx correctly?

[Steven W. Orr]

On Wednesday, May 18th 2005 at 14:22 -0700, quoth Richard E Miles:

=>On Tue, 17 May 2005 21:30:12 -0400 (EDT)
=>Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at shellworld.net> wrote:
=>
=>> what would be the steps to take in console mode to correctly set up 
=>> startx?  the X configuration under text mode setup doesn't speak so far as 
=>> I can tell while using speakup.  Maybe a better first question might be 
=>> does any good reason exist to even use startx at all?  When I last ran it 
=>> I got back an error 104 and was dumped back to text mode.
=>> 
=>
=>startx should start the X server, then GNOME and put you in run level 5.
=>You don't have to do any changes to startx. It is a script located in
=>/usr/X11R6/bin/startx. If you are getting an error, you may have to configure
=>xorg.conf for your monitor using system-config-display. I would try that
=>first and then issue startx after it is configured.

I think I need to jump in here. 

Run level 3 is text mode and is the place from which you can startx to 
manually start the X server. When you log out of the X session you are 
back at a text prompt.

Run level 5 is the graphic login manager xdm. There is no opportunity to 
run startx from there. When you log out of your X session you get back to 
the xdm graphic login manager.

The relationship of startx to xinit is probably best explained in the man 
pages for startx and xinit.

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