How to change the display manager from GDM to SLIM? [SOLVED]

[Kennet R. Iversen]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Kennet R. Iversen <fedora at lykken.net> 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
>>     
>
> Did you read the documentation README.Fedora where it says:
>
> To use SLiM with Fedora, put the following
> in your /etc/sysconfig/desktop configuration:
>
> DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/bin/slim-dynwm
>
> To reboot or halt, login in as special username
> "reboot" or "halt" - using the root password.
> To get a console prompt use username "console",
> and to switch sessions use F1, screenshot F11.
>
> To view screenshots you can use ImageMagick:
> convert /slim.xwd /slim.png
>
>
>   
Thanks for all the replys. I should of cause have looked in the supplied 
documentation as the first thing. Putting

DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/bin/slim-dynwm

in /etc/sysconfig/desktop did most of the trick. The current package of 
slim (slim-1.3.0-4.fc9.i386) contains a symlink to the background image 
of the default theme (the only one installed) but the file it points to 
is not installed. Replacing the symlink with the actual image from the 
source makes slim load as expected :)

Again thanks for your help.
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