On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Jeremy WEst wrote: > Chances are you overwrote all of your xdm and twm settings when > installing the new version of Xfree. Redhat includes a program called > prefdm that seems to not work so well once you reinstall Xfree. What > you can do, is edit your /etc/inittab file, and at the end of the file > you will see a line about prefdm, or something ?dm. I'm at work with a > windows machine, so I can't tell you exactly what the line says. You > will want to change this line so that it starts up gdm. Just change the > line for the gdm binary. K? Let me know if you need more help. But the Red Hat setup leaves that line in /etc/inittab as: x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon which is what it should be. There's no mention there of either gdm/kdm/xdm, that choice is handed off to the file /etc/X11/prefdm which checks to see if /etc/sysconfig/desktop exists. If it does and contains: DESKTOP="GNOME" then the OP should get a Gnome desktop on login. Editing /etc/inittab to something else would override a whole load of flexibility that RH built in by using the prefdm script. [snip] > From: newbie-admin@XFree86.Org [mailto:newbie-admin@XFree86.Org] On > Behalf Of Matt McGuire > > In an effort to get X up and running on a new pc with a Rage 128 type > card, I downloaded and installed XFree86 4.2.0. It worked great. I'm > sure there is more tweaking that can be done, but that is for another > rainy day. Right now I just want the default gnome window manager and > interface to be restored to the the Red Hat 7.1 standard. After > installing the new X, it comes up in a junky twm manager. I know I > could customize it to make it look nice, but I just want to start with > gnome. > > Anyone know how? After installing 4.2.0, I used Xconfigurator to > configure the system. At the end when it starts X to try out the > settings, the default RH Gnome interface came up. But then when I > rebooted the machine the dreaded twm was back. What does /etc/sysconfig/desktop contain? If it has either 'DESKTOP = "GNOME"' or 'DESKTOP = ""' then the gnome desktop should come up. HTH, Oisin Feeley _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
