-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob wrote: > On Saturday 02 August 2003 07:30, Buchan Milne wrote: > >>On Sat, 1 Aug 2003, Joe Baker wrote: >> >>>Can we switch to using gdm. >> >>Sure you can. Mandrake Control Center->Hardware->Display Manager > > > No wonder I'd never seen that setting before. Shouldn't that be under System > rather than Hardware? >
It was thought it was better to place it near the only other X-related tool, XFdrake. > I feel kinda sheepish now because I've been blaming the KDE guys for the lousy > login manager in Mandrake 9.1... thought they'd tried to tart up kdm for some > reason, never understood why when I changed my kdm settings in KDE Control > Center the changes never seemed to take. I've had about 10 users ask me why > they couldn't just type their username anymore, but instead have to scroll > through the list of ~130 NIS users and then click... at least once a day in > the data processing room you hear "(typetypetype)... ARRGH". Two things: 1)You can type in the icon list, and it will get to the first name that matches the few letters you type 2)You can change the behaviour of mdkkdm. > Now at least I > know how to fix it, but shame that I'll have to do it on all the 9.1 boxes # draksec set your options # for i in "host1 host2 host3";do scp /etc/security/msec/level.local $i:/etc/security/msec (but this would be much cooler if you could store msec settings in LDAP, don't you think?). > I've already deployed and there's no apparent way to set up a package > selection floppy to make it use kdm so I'll have to manually change it on all > the new boxes going forward. There is. Add kdebase-kdm and remove mdkkdm. > > Now I just have to figure out how to put that into a bug report. The only possible bug report for your experience is possibly requesting a default to kdebase-kdm instead of mdkkdm. All your other issues are addressed by tools made available to you for that purpose, you just didn't use them ... Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQE/LoqErJK6UGDSBKcRAlZXAJ4llsaoiMpY1SHSmIm7UhWW9gB0dQCUCr+l /eEoQKXAuJItzYMWrx9jSw== =vous -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
