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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: Replacing gdm with kdm
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2000-11-17 23:13:04
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Dan Smith wrote:

> Hello,
>     I recently downloaded and installed the KDE 2.0 packages for
> RH6.2.  Everything runs fine, but I am still getting the GNOME login
> screen and would like to use the new KDE2.0 login screen.  It works
> fine on my home system (RH7.0), but for some reason, when I edit
> /etc/sysconfig/desktop and add the line 'KDE', I get the X error:
>     'INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast:  disabled for 5 minutes'
> I also tried to change the order in which /etc/X11/prefdm searches for
> display managers (after removing my above edit from desktop).  I made
> kdm the first one it looks for (instead of gdm).  That resulted in the
> same error described above.  I was going to remove all gnome packages,
> but I was afraid that would be alot of work for nothing.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks,
> Dan

I have had several hours of trouble with Red Hat 7 scripts, but never
had any problems with 6.1.

In any case, if you only want to run KDE 2, you don't need prefdm.  You
can eliminate it by replacing the last line in "/etc/inittab" with:

x:5:once:/usr/bin/kdm  -nodaemon

JRT

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