I've installed Oracle Linux 6.4 (x86_64) on a server as a database server, the packages installed by default didn't include the graphical interface. Following this article, I installed the referred packages and thereafter I could launch the graphical interface using startx after login. Can I make the server start the graphical server before login and actually login using a graphical greeter (if the term was correct!), or I have to log in first then startx after (automatically or manually)?
How to start graphical interface before login?
gui;oracle linux
You could try changing the runlevel in the /etc/inittab file from id:3:initdefault: to id:5:initdefault:.