[rhelv6-list] Changing login display manager

[Gary Gatling]

You can select window managers in the "new" gdm. Its just not as obvious
how it works.

Type your "username" or click on it if disable_user_list is false and then
a "box" appears in the panel that goes along the bottom of the screen. This
box has a down arrow that lets you select which session type you want. It
defaults to GNOME.

For me all I get is a choice between GNOME or KDE. So I'm not sure how you
would add other window managers but the new login screen does allow you to
pick a session type. But not until after the loginID has been typed in or
selected.There is a box to the left that also lets you pick a language that
appears at the same time as the other "box."

Cheers,

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Michael Coffman <
michael.coffman at avagotech.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to get to a login screen that resembles what was
> available on rhel5?   I would like to have login screen that allows
> the user to choose different window managers at the login.
>
> As a side note, I tried updating /etc/sysconfig/desktop.   XDM works
> but gives no WM selection possibility.  KDE fails miserably with
> kdmgreet crashing.  the following is from /var/log/kdm.log:
>
> (EE) [drm] failed to open device
> (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device
> error setting MTRR (base = 0xf5000000, size = 0x00e00000, type = 1)
> Invalid argument (22)
> expected keysym, got XF86TouchpadOn: line 120 of inet
> expected keysym, got XF86TouchpadOff: line 121 of inet
> expected keysym, got XF86TouchpadOn: line 120 of inet
> expected keysym, got XF86TouchpadOff: line 121 of inet
> KCrash: Application 'kdmgreet' crashing...
> error setting MTRR (base = 0xf5000000, size = 0x00e00000, type = 1)
> Invalid argument (22)
>
> Thanks for any pointers or info.
> --
> -MichaelC
>
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