Install wdm, dpkg-reconfigure gdm, select wdm as your default. Talk to
me offline keith at ksmith.com as this is not in scope. You are having
a problem with Xnest which may have nothing to do with the display
manager. You can determine that trivially by running another X session
against the dm.
Jochen,
You might try wdm. The interface is ugly, but you don't have to load
all the KDE stuff on the machine to run it, it's very light weight.
I've never used Xnest, but I'm thinking the problem is *NOT* related to
gdm/kdm/wdm. Perhaps some insight on the application of Xnest? 'Xnest
-query
Patrick,
Your gnome-terminal and gnome-system-monitor problems are unrelated to
wdm. In fact I'm typing this from a WDM login on a thin client to a
gnome session and both gnome-terminal and gnome-system-monitor start up
just fine. I suggest you bring up an Xterm (ALT-F2, xterm, enter) and
run
Steve,
First of all, thank you for all of your work with Debian and Ubuntu.
Without people like you there would be no alternatives.
Maintenance and Support are always important, and the gnome group is
notorious for goofing up functionality and regression in their releases.
None the less, XDMCP
As Scott says and moreover. Ubuntu could have solved this trivially.
Ubuntu decided to package a broken version of GDM when an older
functional version exists that is totally compatable and already working
and in place in older versions of Ubuntu.
The purpose of an upgrade to an operating system
As a work around you can install wdm:
$ sudo apt-get install wdm
...
Select 'wdm' as your default manager
It's kinda ugly but it works, and you can put in a background with the
ugly square boxes and X style buttons
Then cd /etc/X11/wdm and edit wdm-config:
. . .
# Don't listen for XDMCP
!
This is beyond nuts. I was weirded out on 9.10 when I lost the
configuration screens. Losing remote XDMCP is catastrophic to the point
it will likely have me sticking with 9.04. I can't think of any reason
why this would be undesirable, in particular when you have multiple
clients running
