Praedor Tempus wrote:
>
> I have a few glitches I am trying to fix. First three come out of kdm:
> 1. I have gnome and blackbox installed besides kde. The only things that
> show up in the login menu for selection are "default", "kde", and "failsafe".
> This now brings me to number 2. Selecting "default" causes the screen to go
> black for a moment, then kdm comes back with nothing happening. I have to
> actively select "kde" in order to get kde to startup even though I thought
> "default" would automatically select the last wm/environment you logged into
> (it doesn't in my case - it doesn't do anything).
>
> 3. I cannot simply change user icons in kdm as I should. When I hit the
> user icon window to change/select a user icon, instead of flipping through
> the numerous tux-based icons, I get the system icon list as if I am trying to
> change the icon for an application. I have to manually browse over to the
> kdm directory to select the icon.
>
> The final glitch I want/need to fix relates to arts. When I start a kde
> session, I get a message telling me I need to run artswrapper as root or with
> suid. Huh? Should I set suid on artswrapper? Is that the normal method? I
> never got this message before kde2.2 beta. For now I set suid on artswrapper
> but wonder about the wisdom of this.
>
> Can anyone help me with these glitches? I have looked for kdmrc thinking
> that this would be the file to effect changes in kdm behavior but looking at
> it I see the actual kdm I get at startup bears little resemblance on several
> fronts to kdmrc (the many wm sessions listed do not show up in kdm, the user
> list doesn't match - instead the default kdm behavior is to list just about
> every system service as a user, a bug that comes and goes with every other
> kde release, it appears).
>
> I would appreciate any help that can be offered,
> praedor
> --
> Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
Praedor,
Just a fast question: have you posted any of these problems with the
kde.org people?
drjung
