Mike Corbeil wrote:
> Well, I thought of the getty daemons, or mgetty. From what I vaguely
> recall reading (my background isn't sys admin, but instead development, so
> I haven't dealt with the admin side of systems, except very little), mgetty
> is a login manager kind of "utility".
Correct
> Let's see. Just checked ps aux and this shows gpm for the mouse, but
> doesn't show either kdm or gdm, which is probably why I don't get a gui
> login; just the plain vanilla character based prompt, which is fine, but
> will look into kdm and gdm to see about adding a fancier u.i. for logging
> in.
Not the same thing. To use the graphical login, you _have to_
be _booting_ in graphical mode, i.e. you have to configure
init to start directly in graphical mode.
In your current situation, if you get a text login, it's
because your init is configured that way, and so you don't
use *dm. You probably can find some *getty in ps output.
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