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Subject: Re: change login screen to KDE
From: Germán "A. Racca" <german.racca () gmail ! com>
Date: 2010-09-22 20:55:04
Message-ID: 1285188904.19530.3.camel () centauri ! das ! inpe ! br
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On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 16:56 +0100, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote:
> On 09/22/2010 04:37 PM, Jamie Bohr wrote:
> > Thank you all for help.
> >
> > I verified kdm is installed and even removed gdm,now
> > I get a console window instead of a login screen. I installed all the GDM
> > packages I could find with yum, still no go.I had to create the
> > /etc/sysconfig/desktop
> > file, don't think if that makes a difference
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au
> > <mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au>> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 08:42 -0600, Jamie Bohr wrote:
> > > I have googled and googled on how to make the login screen use KDE
> > > rather than Gnome on Fedora 13. Many references say to put
> > > DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE in /etc/sysconfig/desktop however when I do that I
> > > get a console window for the login screen. I have even tried a
> > > lowercase kde rather than an uppercase, still no good. I have an FC12
> > > install that works fine but it only has KDE installed.
> >
> > Since you asked for "any" help...
> >
> > Historical information:
> > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/ref-guide/ch-sysconfig.html
> > The /etc/sysconfig/desktop file specifies the desktop for new users and
> > the display manager to be run when entering runlevel 5.
> >
> > Correct values are:
> >
> > DISPLAY=<value>, where <value> is one of the following:
> >
> > GNOME — Selects the GNOME desktop environment.
> >
> > KDE — Selects the KDE desktop environment.
> >
> > DISPLAYMANAGER=<value>, where <value> is one of the following:
> >
> > GDM — Selects the GNOME display manager.
> >
> > KDM — Selects the KDE display manager.
> >
> > XDM — Selects the XFree86 display manager.
> >
> > The first two are what you get after you've logged in. Your desktop
> > being handled by Gnome or KDE, or others that aren't listed in this
> > example. The last three being the logon screen, beforehand.
> >
> > You can use KDM as your logon handler, and Gnome as your desktop
> > handler, or other combinations. Though, the last time I tried XDM, it
> > didn't set up a few things as I logged in, so that Gnome didn't work
> > properly. Darned if I can remember what, it was a long time ago, and
> > may no longer be the case, but it's somewhere on the Fedora mailing list
> > archives.
> >
> > Installing KDM or GDM should be separate issues than installing Gnome or
> > KDE. Theoretically, one shouldn't depend on the other. i.e. You can
> > install KDM, without having to install all of KDE.
> >
> > --
> > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
> > 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
> >
> > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I
> > read messages from the public lists.
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > --
> > Jamie Bohr
> >
>
> Based on my experience of just trying the supposedly correct values
> above, they did not work for Fedora 13. Whereas the following does work
> even if gdm and kdm are installed.
>
> DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE
I can confirm this, because /etc/X11/prefdm has the following options:
..........
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then
. /etc/sysconfig/desktop
if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GNOME ]; then
preferred=/usr/sbin/gdm
quit_arg="--retain-splash"
elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then
preferred=/usr/bin/kdm
quit_arg="--retain-splash"
elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = WDM ]; then
preferred=/usr/bin/wdm
elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then
preferred=/usr/bin/xdm
elif [ -n "$DISPLAYMANAGER" ]; then
preferred=$DISPLAYMANAGER
else
quit_arg="--retain-splash"
fi
else
..........
=> it's KDE, not KDM
Regards,
Germán.
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Germán A. Racca
National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
São José dos Campos - SP - Brasil
http://skytux.fedorapeople.org
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