Hi Bill and s srlinuxx,
Thank you both. Both solutions worked like a charm.
I don't know why kcontrol comes with 'kde' by default if it needs 'KDE' but anyway
all is well.
As for s srlinuxx's solution, what I did was change /etc/X11/prefdm from
preferred=
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then
. /etc/sysconfig/desktop >/dev/null 2>&1
[ -n "$DISPLAYMANAGER" ] && DESKTOP=$DISPLAYMANAGER
if [ "$DESKTOP" = GNOME -o "$DESKTOP" = Gnome ]; then
preferred=gdm
elif [ "$DESKTOP" = "KDE" -o "$DESKTOP" = "KDE1" -o "$DESKTOP" = "KDE2"
]; then
preferred=/usr/bin/kdm
elif [ "$DESKTOP" = AnotherLevel ] ; then
preferred=/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm
fi
fi
to
preferred=gdm
#if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then
# . /etc/sysconfig/desktop >/dev/null 2>&1
# [ -n "$DISPLAYMANAGER" ] && DESKTOP=$DISPLAYMANAGER
# if [ "$DESKTOP" = GNOME -o "$DESKTOP" = Gnome ]; then
# preferred=gdm
# elif [ "$DESKTOP" = "KDE" -o "$DESKTOP" = "KDE1" -o "$DESKTOP" = "KDE2"
]; then
# preferred=/usr/bin/kdm
# elif [ "$DESKTOP" = AnotherLevel ] ; then
# preferred=/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm
# fi
#fi
I realize this breaks the flexibility for auto configuring the login manager, but it
did work!
Thank you.
A happy LM fan,
fearless1
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 20:04:10 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] kdm not starting KDE
I was told you can go into the control center
System
Login Manager
Click on Sessions
remove the kde in small case and add KDE in uppercase.
Cheers
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 07:37 pm, you wrote:
> Yeah, that little shortcut wouldn't work for me either. There is a file
> called /etc/X11/prefdm in which you can switch the preference order of kdm
> and gdm. It might work tho I don't know for sure cause I switched to
> booting to console then startx. But I've heard it does.
> -s
>
> On Wednesday 22 August 2001 06:53 pm, you wrote:
> > Hi Dave and all,
> > I tried changing /etc/sysconfig/desktop to {GNOME, Gnome, gnome} and
> > rebooted each time, but each time it still comes back with kdm! Is it
> > possible that this file is not being read? or is there something I need
> > to do to activate it?
> >
> > Thank you
> > fearless1
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:55:34 -0500
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] kdm not starting KDE
> >
> >
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > On Wednesday 22 August 2001 04:47 pm, thus spake Doug X:
> > > > Hello LM users,
> > >
> > > I just upgraded to XFree86 4.1.0 and got X to finally restart.
> > > Then I upgraded to Texstar's kde2.2 rpm's.
> > >
> > > My problem is this.
> > > kdm won't start KDE, it always starts icewm. Any ideas or solutions
> > > as to how I can fix kdm to start KDE. To note: I can log in via init 3
> > > and startx will properly load KDE. Also from init 3 I can run as root
> > > xdm or gdm from command line and both will start KDE properly, however
> > > I don't know how to get gdm or xdm to start by default on init 5? I
> > > have tried the gdm configurator but on a reboot kdm returns.
> >
> > Hello Doug,
> >
> > You need to edit the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop, and change the entry
> > from KDE to GNOME. This will then start gdm instead of kdm.
> >
> > Dave
> > - --
> >
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