> After testing the beta of CentOS 5, i was a little surprised to notice
> that the display manager part of the prefdm file in /etc/X11 was exactly
> like in CentOS 4 / RHEL4 and previous versions including RH9.
>
>
> it reads like this (added line numbers for reference):
>
> 14 # Run preferred X display manager
> 15 preferred=
> 16 if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then
> 17 . /etc/sysconfig/desktop
> 18 if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GNOME ]; then
> 19 preferred=gdm
> 20 elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then
> 21 preferred=kdm
> 22 elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then
> 23 preferred=xdm
> 24 fi
> 25 fi
>
>
> Line 17 is no functional command i know of, therefor the choice of which
> displaymanager (login-screen) to use is decided by the fallback lines
> later in the script (that starts with gdm). If you're ok with gdm, than
> there's no need for this to change.
>
Hi,
I believe that in bash and sh placing . (dot) followed by a space and then
a file will source that file, and in so doing source the DESKTOP="BLAH"
into the current environment.
A.
> Still, it would seem that something is missing there.
> My best guess for what was supposed to be there:
>
>
> # Run preferred X display manager
> preferred= if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then DISPLAYMANAGER=$(cat
> /etc/sysconfig/desktop | grep DESKTOP | cut -d '"' -f2)
> if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GNOME ]; then preferred=gdm elif [
> "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then
> preferred=kdm elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then preferred=xdm fi fi
>
> This would make kdm your display manager when using kde as default
> desktop and gdm when using gnome. Although the grep part is not necessary,
> i added it in case someone decides to add lines to the desktop file
> someday...
>
> I've come across one forum post in which someone suggested to add the
> line DISPLAYMANAGER="KDM" to the desktop file in order to achieve the same
> result. For this to work the prefdm file should be altered like this:
>
>
> # Run preferred X display manager
> preferred= if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then if [ -n "$(cat
> /etc/sysconfig/desktop | grep DISPLAYMANAGER | cut -d '"'
> -f2)" ];then
> DISPLAYMANAGER=$(cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop | grep DISPLAYMANAGER | cut -d
> '"' -f2)
> if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GDM ]; then preferred=gdm elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER"
> = KDM ]; then
> preferred=kdm elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then preferred=xdm fi else
> DISPLAYMANAGER=$(cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop | grep DESKTOP | cut -d '"'
> -f2)
> if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GNOME ]; then preferred=gdm elif [
> "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then
> preferred=kdm elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then preferred=xdm fi fi fi
>
> It all seems basic scripting to me so i wonder if no-one simply never
> noticed or never cared to finish this one.
>
> Rody
>
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