I recently switched our workstations from gdm to kdm, because I was
receiving some complaints with gdm about having to set the desktop
halfway through the login (versus being able to set it from the start of
the login process), as well as having the mile long list of previous
logins (which, by the way, if anyone knows how to turn that off, lemme
know, please!).
After switching the window manager to kdm, we started having problems
with our vncserver sessions. Every single session was kde, without
regard for the contents of the xstartup file for that particular user. I
have users that want gnome and others that want kde, and some project
accounts that use some other custom stuff, so obviously this was a problem.
The only "configuration" I did after yum group-installing KDE-Desktop
was to set up the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file to contain:
DESKTOP="KDE"
DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
so I am not sure what is up with kdm to be causing this. I tried looking
online but only found some ancient debian/ubuntu questions that are
mostly unanswered or resolved in ways that won't work for us (hard
coding something in xinitrc, for example).
So, does anyone have any ideas as to what is going on and what I can do
to resolve it? I am currently in the process of rolling back the
workstations to the gdm configuration as a "fix", but if possible I'd
really like to be able to actually sort out what is going on. Our
systems are not heavily customized, being "software development
workstation" installs with a few extra group installs (including the
centos base tigervnc-server package) and a handful of third-party
rpmforge packages installed, and kdm seems to work properly on the
console (allowing selection of other desktops, etc), it's only with the
~/.vnc/xstartup that we are having issues.
Thanks!
Miranda
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