Problems with GDM - graphical greeter gone

[Mark Nixon]

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.

Thanks.

Mark