On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 15:18 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > > [...] > >> # Run xdm in runlevel 5 > >> x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon > > > > /etc/X11/prefdm is just a Shell script. It basically just > > reads /etc/sysconfig/desktop and acts accordingly, so the easiest way to > > add a new display manager is to edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop. > > But > > # dir /etc/sysconfig/desktop > dir: cannot access /etc/sysconfig/desktop: No such file or directory > # You'll note that prefdm reads the file if it exists, otherwise it uses defaults. Thus you have to create it if you want to change the defaults, but it's not a big deal. Here's mine: # cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop #!/bin/sh DESKTOP="KDE" DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" That's it. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
