desktop printing

[Rex Dieter]

Arturo wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:

>> Arturo wrote:

>>>  switching from GDM to KDM, I basically had to hack (using the term 
>>> loosely) /etc/X11/prefdm script to get it to work.

>> adding
>> DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
>> to
>> /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>> is a little easier.

> I'm not sure if you've actually tried this, but it doesn't work. 

Yes, it WORKSFORME.

>  And reviewing the prefdm , I can't seehow it's suppose to work at all. 

My take on /usr/X11/prefdm is that it's pretty straightforward:
...
# Run preferred X display manager
preferred=
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then
         . /etc/sysconfig/desktop
         if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GNOME ]; then
                 preferred=gdm
         elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then
                 preferred=kdm
         elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then
                 preferred=xdm
         fi
fi
...
[ -n "$preferred" ] && exec $preferred $* >/dev/null 2>&1

> Obviously I may easily be an 
> isolated information. Here's a link to a thread I had started on the 
> issue: 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=201201&highlight=prefdm  

Post #7 had what you probably missed:

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I've found that after changing /etc/sysconfig/desktop, if I do a 
[ctrl-alt-bksp] it won't change, but if I change the runlevel to 3 and 
then bacck to 5 (as in "init 3;init 5") it works perfectly.
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Though, I'd recommend:
/sbin/telinit 3; /sbin/telinit 5
instead.

Of course, rebooting works too.

-- Rex