Hi -- thanks for trying to help. I cannot find any configuration program which
has a LOGIN Manager associated with it. I looked through all the items in the
list -- found some things which said configuration, but none seemed to have a
configuration manager. If I try to start gnome from anywhere, I get a message
which says "Gnome segmentation fault, report bug to development team".
Next time you at your LINUX machine, perhaps you could take a look and help me
find the item. Thanks.
Murray Strome
Aaron deRozario wrote:
> I know I had a similar problem after a bad unmount problem. The Mandrake
> login screen disappeared and was replaced with the standard KDE login screen
> and no Shutdown button. I stumbled upon the solution by accident.
>
> If you log in as root and start up the KDE configuration program (sorry I
> can't remember the name - I am at work on Windows - it is the program you
> use to change backgrounds etc and has a button on the panel). In there you
> will find the LOGIN manager. Under teh login amanager you will find a whole
> heap of things you can configure. You will find a section on Shutdown
> permissions (I think I used Shutdown for all) that put the Shutdown button
> back on the login screen.
>
> There is also a section on sessions. Add a session called kde (otherwise
> kde sort of disappears). You can also add WindowMaker. I did this creating
> two possible sessions KDE and WindowMaker, however after a while (proabably
> a restart) all the options miraculously returned (IceWM etc). I'm not
> quite sure why that happened.
>
> There is also an option that gives an icon for various users. This was not
> part of the default configuration for Mandrake, though it is for Caldera.
> It does speed up login (not that typing your username is particularly slow).
> There are a few other things you can configure as well (startup screen
> wallpaper etc).
>
> Sorry I can't be more descriptive, as I said I'm at work and don't have a
> linux box in front of me.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Aaron
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 2:55
> > To: LINUX Newbie
> > Subject: [newbie] KDE Messed up
> >
> > Can anyone help me with this one?
> >
> >
> > I am not sure what exactly caused it, but during a session, the system
> > locked up and nothing
> > could get it going except to restart it. After this, the initial box in
> > KDE is messed up. Until this
> > happened, that box gave me a pull down menu with several start-up
> > possibilities (such as
> > KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker and many others), and there was a button which
> > allowed one to
> > shutdown or restart the computer. It has been replaced with a similar box
> > with a large "24" at
> > the top, a pull down menu with only KDE and Failsafe options and no button
> > for
> > shutdown/restart.
> >
> > How can I recover the original box? During reboot, the only things which
> > fail are the sound
> > card item (which I still have not been able to resolve -- Acer FX-3D
> > (1816)) and I get a
> > message
> >
> > mountd: couldn't start /var/lib/nfs/xtab
> >
> > Also, during shutdown, I got a message saying it could not unmount NFS
> > system. I don't
> > know if these are related or not.
> >
> >
> > Murray Strome
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> >
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Murray and Diane Strome
1275 Burnside Road West
VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3
Canada
Phone: (250) 479-6448
Fax: (250) 727-3427
