On 10/12/06, Neil Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> I have spend the rest of the day trying to figure out what part of
> what control file specifies the initial Display Manager. One would
> think that it was /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager but I can't see
> anything there. Besides that, it has a timestamp of 23:42 last night,
> and the Gimp-ed files that I built are timestamped 08:48 and 08:49
> this morning. So I was not fooling with Display Manager displays last
> night.
>
> Any useful clues that i have missed? I saw in an old manual that SuSE
> 7.0 YaST had a "login configuration" option to choose the Display
> Manager. Nothing like that in SUSE 10.1 YaST2.
Dig around in /etc/X11/xdm. My system has a README.SuSE that seems to
explain which files, variable, etc. are used by the displaymanager.
Nothing obvious there. There is an obvious line in
/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"
If I change that using the SuSE tool, "YaST2 -> /etc/sysconfig
Editor" I can make it say "gdm". But that does not change the
behavior of the system. In fact I can # chmod 000
/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and the system still boots up using kdm
as before. Nobody is reading that file. Or something overrides it.
Mysteriouser and mysteriouser. There must be somewhere a file that
stores the user's previous choice of window manager. The window
manager that is selected if you choose "default" at the login window
is determined by a line in /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager. That's OK.
But previous WM choice isn't saved there.
carl
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