hello,
I am running Fedora Core 1 on my system. I recently installed kde 3.2 of the Rpms i downloaded from kde.org.
I want to make KDM the defaukt login manager but whatever I always get GDM as the display.
I changed my /etc/sysconfig/desktop line DESKTOP="KDM" and also tried DESKTOP="KDE"
How do i check if KDM will run properly or not.
This is (or at least used to be) in the KDM manual. To read it (some of it might be outdated) use this URL in Konqueror: help:/kdm
Do a console login. Either enter "linux 3" at the LILO prompt or kill your Xsession and return to the console. Login as root and execute:
kdm
on the command line. If it doesn't work, you should get error messages.
If it does work then the script that stands between the call on the last line of your: "/etc/inittab" file (something like this):
# Run xdm in runlevel 5 x:5:once:/etc/X11/Xstart
and calling KDM is screwing up somehow.
If you always want to run KDM, you can edit the: "/etc/inittab" file to match the above and add this script:
/etc/X11/Xstart --------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8< #!/bin/bash # exec /usr/kde3/bin/kdm --------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<
{if your path to: "kdm" is different, then change that}
If you have never written a script before, remember that it must be executable. Permissions should (for this one) be root:root:755
This is considered to be the correct way to do this, but you can also put the command in your: "/etc/inittab" file:
# Run xdm in runlevel 5 x:5:once:/usr/kde3/bin/kdm
{again your path to: "kdm" might be different}
Note: "once" is what you should use on a single user system. If this is for a server, then you will probably want to replace it with: "respawn".
Now that I have told you more than you probably wanted to know, do you have any questions about it?
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