>> 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 [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then
>> 23 preferred=xdm
>> 24 fi
>> 25 fi
>>
>>
>>
>> Line 17 is no functional command i know of, therefor the choice of
>> which displaymanager (login-screen) to use is decided by the fallback
>> lines later in the script (that starts with gdm). If you're ok with gdm,
>> than there's no need for this to change.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
>
> I believe that in bash and sh placing . (dot) followed by a space and
> then a file will source that file, and in so doing source the
> DESKTOP="BLAH"
> into the current environment.
>
> A.
>
Typo there I meant: DISPLAYMANAGER="BLAH"
A.
>
>> Still, it would seem that something is missing there.
>> My best guess for what was supposed to be there:
>>
>>
>>
>> # Run preferred X display manager
>> preferred= if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then DISPLAYMANAGER=$(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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