KDE occupies GDM [SOLVED]

Mostafa Z. Afgani mostafa.afgani at world.iu-bremen.de
Sun Oct 17 15:22:12 UTC 2004


Andre Costa wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:02:29 +0200
> "Mostafa Z. Afgani" <mostafa.afgani at world.iu-bremen.de> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>>Hi Mostafa,
>>>
>>>check /etc/sysconfig/desktop and see if this is set:
>>>
>>>DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE
>>>
>>>if it is, change it to
>>>
>>>DISPLAYMANAGER=GNOME
>>>
>>>and maybe your problems will go away.
>>>
>>>HTH
>>>
>>>Andre
>>>
>>
>>Hello Andre,
>>
>>DISPLAYMANAGER was indeed set to KDE but even after I changed it to 
>>GNOME it didn't help :(.
> 
> 
> Mmmh... that's odd. Did you restart GDM by going to a text console
> (CTRL+ALT+F1) and doing "init 2; init 5; logout" as root? (maybe simply
> pressing CTRL+ALT+BKSP on the GDM login screen would do it, but I am not
> sure...)
> 
> HTH
> 
> Andre
> 
Hi Andre,

Thanks a lot for the tip. I didn't try restarting GDM (stupid me). But 
after I did, the login is back to normal.

Thanks!
-M




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