Changeset 52250565 for x/dm/lightdm.xml

Timestamp:

10/06/2020 12:16:17 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

6d44b69

Parents:

a6b95b9d

Message:

Various clean-up and modifications to the dm pages in view of the recent
change to the bootscripts.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@23788 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• x/dm/lightdm.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

x/dm/lightdm.xml

@@ -310 +310 @@
              <phrase revision="systemd">Systemd Unit</phrase></title>
 
-      <para revision="sysv">
-        Install the <filename revision="sysv">/etc/rc.d/init.d/lightdm</filename>
-        init script from the <xref linkend="bootscripts"/>
-      </para>
-
-<screen role="root" revision="sysv"><userinput>make install-lightdm</userinput></screen>
       <indexterm zone="lightdm lightdm-bootscript">
         <primary sortas="f-lightdm">lightdm</primary>
       </indexterm>
 
+      <para revision="sysv">
+        To start <command>lightdm</command> automatically when the system is
+        switched to runlevel 5, install the
+        <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/xdm</filename> script and the
+        <filename>/etc/sysconfig/xdm</filename> configuration file
+        included in the <xref linkend="bootscripts"/> package
+        and adjust <filename>/etc/inittab</filename> by running
+        as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+      </para>
+
+<screen role="root" revision="sysv"><userinput>make install-lightdm</userinput></screen>
+
       <para revision="systemd">
         Install and enable the systemd unit.  From the 
@@ -334 +340 @@
 
       <para>
-        If the lightdm bootscript has been installed, start lightdm by running, as the
-        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
-      </para>
-
-<screen role="root"><userinput>/etc/rc.d/init.d/lightdm start</userinput></screen>
+        The <command>lightdm</command> greeter can be started from the
+        command line as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
+        user:
+      </para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>telinit 5</userinput></screen>
 
       <para>
-        By convention, X should be executed at runlevel 5, consequently, the
-        same is true for <application>lightdm</application>. However, LFS default
-        runlevel is 3. Changing to runlevel 5, from a console terminal, as
-        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user, starts the
-        <command>lightdm</command> bootscript, bringing up the greeter screen:
-      </para>
-
-<screen role="root"><userinput>init 5</userinput></screen>
-
-      <para>
-        In order to permanently set the default to 5, starting the
-        <command>lightdm</command> greeter screen automatically, modify
+        Alternatively the runlevel can be permanently set to 5, starting the
+        <command>lightdm</command> greeter screen automatically, by modifying
         <filename>/etc/inittab</filename>.  As the <systemitem
         class="username">root</systemitem> user: