What I finally did was to create an .xinitrc file in my home directory. Then I changed the call in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession from startup=$HOME/.xsession to startup=$HOME/.xinitrc. The .xinitrc file only has "gnome-session" in it. That seemed to work without messing with prefdm. Thanks everyone. On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 11:58, Feeley wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
