Disabling autostart of KDE

[chrisnu]

Hello,

I am brand new to Linux so bear with me. :) I'm using Mandrake 9.0 for reference. When I installed Mandrake, I only installed KDE packages, and chose a graphical login. When installation was finished, X automatically started (as I wanted), and also logged me directly into KDE. I installed GNOME later because I wanted to try it out. How do I allow myself to choose between GNOME or KDE when logging in? Right now, it still automatically logs into KDE - I have to log out before I have a choice of which DE I want to use. I'm sure I just have to edit a configuration file pertaining to X, I just don't know which one.

Or I could edit /etc/inittab so I log in from the console, but I'm too vain. :D

(Also, I'm triple-booting WinXP/RedHat 8/Mandrake 9, if that makes a difference.)

[godzakka]

Happens to me too. I am lazy, I just hit Control, Alt and Backspace when its loading KDE and it kicks me out. I use blackbox b/c it doesn't take 30 secs to 1 min to load.

[carrja99]

Same here... I had turned it off before through the gdm configuration menu, but after I reinstalled the system due to my runaway kernel editing, I am unable to disable the autostart (even worse, I upgraded to KDE3, but it seems bent on loading up old kde, how is beyond me!) Luckily, I don't reboot much.

[Norin]

In Mandrake 9 in the kde menu, go to configuration, mandrake control center, boot, boot config, and modify the startup from there.

[chrisnu]

EDIT: Oops. Sorry for the redundancy. Guess I should investigate the situation before posting, eh? Forgive a n00b.

[sandeep]

open the file /etc/inittab search for the line
id:5:initdefault:
Change it to
id:3:initdefault:
:D