> First, I disable the graphic login (the one with all the goofy faces)
> which really seems stupid with several hundred users at school, all
> with the same face.

Agreed!

> If I get into KDE on the server, under the KDE
> Control Center I can find a login manager and turn off the faces.
> However, they seem to come back sometime later.

The same thing happens with gdm. Couldn't figure out what process was
changing the face browser to true after we'd manually set it false. For
lack of an explanation, I used brute force and made gdm.conf read only:

chattr +i /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf

This fixed the problem and hasn't created any side effects... but I'd
still like to know what was changing this file so we could address the
real cause. It happens without a reboot as if it's part of a cron job.
Anybody know?

> Related to this question (though perhaps a bit loosely), if the
> workstations will be running IceWM, does it make any difference which
> DM is running, KDM, GDM, or XDM?

We've run both xdm and gdm interchangeably. If you'll ever need to login
using Windows domain authentication with Winbind, gdm and kdm will work
without modification with the system-auth-winbind file that Samba
provides... xdm won't. xdm is lighter weight and I was going to fix it
to work with winbind... but the kids liked the penguin graphic I put up
in gdm so I decided to leave well enough alone! :)

Best regards,

-Tom




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