RE: restoring gnome...

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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

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