I really want KDE on my login screen

Himmler

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Feb 24, 2003, 2:30:11 AM2/24/03

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I am diggin all day today, trying to change the graphical login screen to
use KDE instead of Gnome on my RH 8.0.
I tried everything I could find, like switchdesk, /etc/sysconfig/desktop,
etc to accomplish this but Gnome keeps on greeting me on logon.
what might I be doing wrong?
Gunter

Bruce Towle

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Feb 24, 2003, 9:07:37 AM2/24/03

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Himmler wrote:
> I am diggin all day today, trying to change the graphical login screen to
> use KDE instead of Gnome on my RH 8.0.
> I tried everything I could find, like switchdesk, /etc/sysconfig/desktop,

Try adding the line:

DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"

to this file.

Bill K.

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Feb 24, 2003, 10:49:41 AM2/24/03

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In article <7Sj6a.217954$iG3.26846@sccrnsc02>, "Himmler"
<..ne...@unknown.com> wrote:

You seem to be confusing the desktop (kde) with the display manager
(kdm).

You should learn to figure out this kind of problem for yourself. First,
look at /etc/inittab (the init startup script). At the end of this
script, you'll see that it executes /etc/X11/prefdm. In that script,
you'll see that it sources /etc/sysconfig/desktop, and gives you clues as
to what should be in it.

Himmler

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Feb 24, 2003, 7:06:23 PM2/24/03

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That's it! - thanks, Bruce

Gunter

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Himmler

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Feb 24, 2003, 8:27:12 PM2/24/03

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Bill,

thanks, that was a very good pointer - yes there is the
DISPLAYMANAGER - I love it to dig into stuff as
long as I know where to start to dig ;-)
Especially the respawn in inittab gave me the idea that
one other problem that I haven't been able to figure out
may be rooted in this area: I have X running on virtual
terminal 7, then when I switch to another virtual
terminal and login in in text mode e.g. as root, after a
short while X is restarted and I'm looking again at the
login screen on virtual terminal 7. Can you point me in
the direction where I could dig in to understand why
it's doing that and - hopefully - to fix that?
thanks,
Gunter

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Bill K.

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Feb 25, 2003, 11:53:56 AM2/25/03

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In article <QDz6a.222160$SD6.11630@sccrnsc03>, "Himmler"
<..ne...@unknown.com> wrote:

> Bill,
>
> thanks, that was a very good pointer - yes there is the DISPLAYMANAGER -
> I love it to dig into stuff as long as I know where to start to dig ;-)
> Especially the respawn in inittab gave me the idea that one other
> problem that I haven't been able to figure out may be rooted in this
> area: I have X running on virtual terminal 7, then when I switch to
> another virtual terminal and login in in text mode e.g. as root, after a
> short while X is restarted and I'm looking again at the login screen on
> virtual terminal 7. Can you point me in the direction where I could dig
> in to understand why it's doing that and - hopefully - to fix that?

Nothing off the top of my head. But I've noticed that sometimes when I
switch runlevels from a textual virtual terminal, it reverts to terminal
7. Is your root login script doing something like that?

Himmler

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Feb 28, 2003, 12:31:18 AM2/28/03

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"Bill K." <bil...@xxxlocalnet.com> wrote in message

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nothing special in my login scripts. playing with it a bit more I noticed
that
logging in in virtual terminal 1 seem to restart X, thus logging off the
user
on vt 7.
when I then let vt7 stay on the login screen then I can logoff/in in text
mode
on vt1 without effecting vt7.
but then issuing a couple of shell commands like mail, ls restarts X again.
hmm - very strange.