Problems with GDM - graphical greeter gone

[Mark Nixon]

On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 00:08 +0100, Mark Nixon wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 22:56 +0000, Stuart Sears wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> My /etc/sysconfig has:
> DESKTOP="GNOME"
> DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE
> 
> 
> > 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
> 
> I'll try that.
> 
Oops, I accidently deleted Stuart's reply. I just tried that, and I
still get a little black and white greeter with an analog clock on the
right hand side.

Mark