X11 file locations

[Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo]

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > deep enough into the docs, there is a suggestion to use /etc/inittab
> > to start it, but I don't think that any of the distributions are really
> > doing it that way.
> 
> Why does the spec need to specify how you start xdm. Its not something
> apps generally want to do, and X11 with gdm kdm, and all the xdm variants
> may exist. A box may even only have X11 remotely

The spec doesn't need to specify how to start xdm (or kdm or gdm or
whateverdm). It should, though, specify what run levels it should run
under, so that all distributions match up under the same runlevels. E.g.
runlevel 0 is shutdown, 1 is single user, 2 is multi without network, 3 is
normal multi, 4 is custom, 5 is with [xgk]dm, 6 is reboot (blatantly
stolen from RH, I know, but something to work with).

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