Possibly the best method is to modify your inittab (normally /etc/inittab). First thing to modify in inittab is the default runlevel, you should have a line like id:2:initdefault: change it to id:5:initdefault: Now you need to set the correct X login manager for the X terminal. There may be a suitable line already there but commented out (IE. with the hash symbol (#) at the beginning). You need a line like x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/gdm -nodaemon Please be aware that the GDM login manager binary may be located else where (IE. it may or may not be /usr/bin/gdm) as I have taken this line from an archlinux system which was to hand.

Now just save inittab (probably needs superuser permissions).

I cannot remember, but there may be a GDM start up script which you could use instead, however I think the inittab route is preferred.

Michael Whapples On 01/-10/37 20:59, Dietmar Segbert wrote:

Hello,

i have installed grml on my netbook. I use grml with speakut an brltty. Now i have installed the gnome-desktop with orca.

Normally i want to use the textconsoles tty1 to tty6 and start gnome- desktop with startx.

So my question:

How must i modify grml, so that i have six textconoles an ont tty7 a graphical login (gdm3), so that ic can change with ctrl+alt+f(x) between the consoles?

Tanks for your help.

Regards.

Dietmar