xinit: starting fluxbox/kde automatically

[Drewch]

Hey, it seems its been longer than i thought since using linux. I used to use gentoo and arch, but have been too lazy to reinstall them so i just picked up backtrack for the easy install. Now i want to start up in fluxbox.. or kde automatically, and have the graphical user login instead of the default backtrack login that says info about logging in and starting x. i know gnome has gdm, but im not sure what kde has, and what are the files
xinitrc@
xinitrc.fluxbox*
xinitrc.kde

Im assuming when i type startx its running the top one, and then if i want to run fluxbox i copy .fluxbox into the top one. Kina weird but is that correct? Seems its easier to change one line but w/e.

Second question is how can i just automatically load into the kde graphical login, i forget the name of that file.. -.-... i know its a one line change, but im not sure of what kde's graphical login is called, and where/what the file is?
THanks a lot

[rumburak514]

How can you name it other than KDM ?
You need to have bootsplash to graphic login, but probably it is not supported in BT.

[purehate]

If you do not like the command line logon and want the KDE desktop to start automatically.

nano /etc/inittab

change the following line:

id:3:initdefault:

to

id:4:initdefault:


If you want leetmode to start automatically.

cd /root/.kde/Autostart

ln -s /usr/bin/leetmode leetmode

That will create a link to leetmode in your autostart directory.


If you want to stop your CDROM from ejecting on reboots and shutdowns, you need to alter the shutdown script.

cd /etc/rc.d

nano rc.6

Find the relevant piece of code and alter it to look like the following

# eject cdrom devices
. ./usr/lib/liblinuxlive
#echo "Ejecting all CDROMs..."
#list_cdrom_devices | while read DEVICE; do
# cdrecord dev=$DEVICE -eject >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
# can't use eject because it's not working with our kernel
# eject -s $DEVICE >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
#done
echo "========================================"
echo "It's safe to switch the computer off now"
echo -ne "Press Enter to $command "
read junk