Re: [expert] Stop using kdm

[Brook humphrey]

Mike Corbeil wrote:
> 
> Ken Archer wrote:
> 
> > Xdm (generic), kdm (KDE) and gdm (gnome) all provide another level of security,
> > but my original question was about doing away with any of the login managers.
> > Once you have setup Mandrake to launch X and go directly to a gui, the default
> > is to bring up Kdm.  Now I would rather go directly to a consol screen and
> > then, using "startx" go directly to my window manager of choice as set up in
> > ~/.xinitrc.  What I can't find is the file to edit to take kdm out of the
> > process.

edit the file 

/etc/inittab

change the line that says

id:5:initdefault

to

id:3:initdefault

that should do it.