Problems with GDM - graphical greeter gone
Stuart Sears
stuart at sjsears.com
Fri Mar 25 22:56:07 UTC 2005
On Friday 25 March 2005 22:38, Mark Nixon wrote:
> Until recently, I had Bluecurve as a graphical greeter. After I
Bluecurve is just a theme - what you had was gdm... :-)
> updated KDE to 3.3.2 a few weeks ago, it was gone. All I get is a
> chintzy little black and white login. I've just updated to 3.4, and
> it's the same.
kdm is also themable/customisable if you so deisre, but it may be more
trouble than it's worth to you
> I've tried GDMsetup, but it doesn't change a thing. I've obviously
> borked something, but I can't figure out what. Is this an XWindows
> thing?
This is happening because /etc/X11/prefdm reads /etc/sysconfig/desktop
to see what your preferred desktop is (GNOME or KDE mostly) and starts
the relevant display (login) manager - you are probably seeing kdm
because your default desktop is now KDE.
Change /etc/sysconfig/desktop to GNOME and your should get gdm back...
Alternatively you can change the line in /etc/inittab which says
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
to
x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/gdm -nodaemon
>
> Mark
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