How do i start a clean X? How do i change the default Login Manager?

[Mike C]

Pierre Lamb <plamb_98 <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> Changing Preferences: You can change the preferences
> for login managers.
> For Gnome/gdm:	Run 'gdmsetup'
> For KDE/kdm:	Run the KDE Control Center > System
> Administration > Login Manager.

I have always found that making changes to the login manager settings will 
not work unless you edit the file /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc so that the 
line UseTheme=true is changed to "UseTheme=false"