How can I change the login window?

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Malcolm Kay
<malcolm.kay at internode.on.net> wrote:
>> I am running XFCE on F9. How can I change the login window?
>>
> XFCE doesn't present a login window. You can run this window
> manager after logging in oon a console command line.
>
> The graphical login window is presented by whichever display
> manager you are using -- usually gdm, kdm or xdm. Selecting a
> different display manager will give you a different presentation,
> and if you don't like any of these then you can write your own
> or look for what else might have already been written.
>
> The display manager is normally activated by prefdm referenced in
> /etc/inittab. It will also honour a DISPLAYMANAGER variable set
> in /etc/initscript.

Thanks, Malcom. My /etc/inittab is below. How can I change the default
theme to the Circles one? In F8, there was a menu entry

System --> Login manager

(or something like that), but nothing in F9.

Paul

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id:5:initdefault:

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6

# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
# of power left.  Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
# This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
# UPS connected and working correctly.
pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

# If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"


# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon