Paul Misner wrote:
> When the updated, and much attacked KDM login screen was released several days
> ago, I changed my login manager to GDM, by altering the
> /etc/sysconfig/desktop file to say DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm.
>
> This worked fine. Now that it sppears the original version of KDM has been
> restored, I wanted to change back. I changed my /etc/sysconfig/desktop file
> back to DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm. I am still getting GDM, not KDM, when I log in.
>
Looks like it should be fine:
[bgmilne@bgmilne bgmilne]$ grep -i kd /etc/X11/prefdm
elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = "KDM" -o "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = "kdm" -o
"$DISPLAYMANAGER" = "KDE" -o "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = "kde" ]; then
preferred=kdm
if which kdm >/dev/null 2>&1; then
preferred=kdm
> My question: Why did changing the desktop file back to KDM not make the system
> use KDM for the login manager?
Did you restart dm? ('service dm restart') or reboot afterwards?
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