How to change the display manager from GDM to SLIM?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 09:48 +0200, Kennet R. Iversen wrote:
> I have tried to get slim to start as my login manager instead of gdm, 
> but everything I have tried so far has not worked.
> 
> I have installed slim via yum and then tried the following approaches:
> 
> First I tried to put the following line in /etc/X11/default-display-manager
>     /usr/bin/slim
> 
> That did not work. Then I tried to put this line in /etc/inittab:
>     x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null
> 
> This did not work. I then tried to put this line in /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>     DISPLAYMANAGER="SLIM"
> and then added these to lines in /etc/X11/prefdm just after the 
> GNOME/gdm part:
>     elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = SLIM ]; then
>         preferred=/usr/bin/slim
> 
> This did not work either. I have not been able to find a solution that 
> works. So, how do I change the default display manager from GDM to SLIM?
> 
> Any suggestions are welcome
> Kennet
> 
I would expect the /etc/sysconfig/desktop to contain this:
#!/bin/sh
DESKTOP="SLIM"
DISPLAYMANAGER=SLIM

together with your changes to the prefdm