GDM config for other wm's

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sat Oct 18 14:29:28 PDT 2003


On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 17:25, Steve Wingate wrote:
> >
> > Did you select "KDE" from the Sessions pull-down in GDM?  What does
> > ~/.dmrc say?  Are you using the factory gdm.conf?
> 
> I've tried selecting them all and I still login with gnome.
> GDM.conf is generic with the exception of changing the graphical login
> greeter png.
> 
> steve at daemon:~> cat .dmrc
> 
> [Desktop]
> Session=gnome.desktop

This is why.  GDM should be changing this to the desktop file last
selected.  Editing this manually should fix it for you, but you
shouldn't need to do that.  Plus, the Session name shouldn't end in
.desktop.  Try changing this to kde, and see what happens.

Joe

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> > >
> > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
> > > |Steve Wingate		<s.wingate at pobox.com>
> > > |MCSE, CCNA		Sat Oct 18 13:10:00 PDT 2003
> > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
> > > |FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE
> > > | 1:10PM  up 39 days,  5:42, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
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> >
> 
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
> |Steve Wingate		<s.wingate at pobox.com>
> |MCSE, CCNA		Sat Oct 18 14:20:00 PDT 2003
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
> |FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE
> | 2:20PM  up 39 days,  6:52, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
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