Starting X remotely to start a vnc connection

[John Van Ostrand]

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 13:32 -0500, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org wrote:
> I apparently am the clueless one. Running /sbin/init 5 will bring up 
> everything on your system, including gdm. To only bring up gdm, run 
> /usr/sbin/gdm. Yeah... Got me there, making things far more complicated 
> than they really are. Good learning for me though, so thanks.
> 
> To anyone reading this: How does one change the default runlevel on 
> Fedora? Whenever I boot Fedora (Core 5 x86_64), I end up at a prompt in 
> runlevel 2. I'd like very much to not have to do anything at all and be 
> greeted with the usual gdm screen in runlevel 5.

Edit the /etc/inittab file. Locate the line that has the
"initdefault"keyword and change the 2 to a 5, eg:

id:5:initdefault:

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