I am somewhat stumped. I have had to mess with this so seldom,
and things seem to change so often that I don't keep track.
What I refer to is what is the file or files that I need to
edit to make gdm the default instead of kdm? I have looked at xinitrc,
Xsessions, desktop, and just about every other file I can
find that LOOKS like it should have something to do with this
stuff and in not a one can I find a line that says, in effect,
"start kdm".
On my laptop, all is well with Mandrake 7.1 and KDE. On my home
desktop all is NOT well - kde is totally toast. I need to change
the login from kdm to gdm because as it now stands, if I reboot or
logout, my system tries to go back to kdm which doesn't work, and
this causes X to crash me back to the CLI. I can run gnome but not
anything having to do with kde so I need to change the whole shebang
to use gnome and gtk stuff instead of kde/qt.
As it is, after I crash back to the commandline when logging out
of a gnome session, if I want to restart gnome, I have to use
DrakWM to start it after logging in from the CLI. If I do startx,
it tries to start kde and crashes. Looking at startx is useless:
#!/bin/sh
# (c) 1999 Red Hat Software, Inc.
bindir=/usr/X11R6/bin
userclientrc=$HOME/.xinitrc
userserverrc=$HOME/.xserverrc
sysclientrc=/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
sysserverrc=/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
clientargs=""
serverargs=""
if [ -f $userclientrc ]; then
clientargs=$userclientrc
else if [ -f $sysclientrc ]; then
clientargs=$sysclientrc
fi
fi
If I then look at my .xinitrc, it too is useless:
#!/bin/sh
# Execute enlightenment. ALWAYS make sure this is at the end of this
# startup file - and ALWAYS run things before it with an & at the end.
# For example:
# xterm &
# kpanel &
# It is suggested to use Enlightenment's Remember dialog for having apps
# spawned automatically on login.
exec /usr/bin/enlightenment
It is saying to start enlightenment, NOT KDE.
If I look at the system xinitrc, it doesn't have squat in it about
gnome or kde in it.
What is the magic file that I can edit to control the startup login
manager?
praedor
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