Carl Lowenstein wrote: > > After a fresh installation of openSUSE10.1, selecting Gnome as the > display system but also loading KDE, the system boots with the Gnome > display manager gdm. After a while, I selected a KDE desktop to see > what would happen. One of the things that happened is that the > display manager changed to _kdm_ . > > I can change the window manager to any of half a dozen selections, but > the display manager remains kdm. I can't figure outhow to get back to > gdm short of a complete reinstall, which is ridiculous. The piece > missing from my knowledge is what permanent data (persisting across > reboot) determines whether the boot-time display manager is gdm or kdm > or other.
That is annoying. > According to the documentation, and comments in the file, it should be > /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager. But changes to that file, including > making it inaccessible by chmod 000, have no apparent effect on what > happens. Did you edit the file directly with vi or whatever or use the Yast->System->sysconfig editor ? I think the Yast route runs insserv to change the init links to run earlygdm vs earlykdm during boot. Look in /etc/init.d/rc5.d and see, e.g. I have: ls rc5.d/*dm* rc5.d/K12xdm rc5.d/K19earlykdm rc5.d/S03earlykdm rc5.d/S10xdm You could try setting the symlinks manually. > Quick test $ sudo /opt/gnome/sbin/gdmsetup > (gdmsetup:9337): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display Use gnomesu /opt/gnome/sbin/gdmsetup ? or xhost +localhost temporarily. David Looney -- Therapy helps, but screaming obscenities is cheaper. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
