gdm question.

[Gary Kline]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 01:33:33PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> Gary Kline wrote:
> | 	To the Gnome-savvy out there,
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> | 	About a week ago I had reason to reboot this server.  I
> | 	had set the gdm_enable variable to ="YES" and when things
> | 	came up again, *voila*, I logged into my gdk account anf
> | 	Gnome churned up!!  I logged out, then tried to login to
> | 	kline.  My std login still uses ctwm.  For some reason
> | 	gdm kicked me off; could the default except to see
> | 	"exec gnome_session"? and if not, the user is out of luck?
> | 	Did I miss some setting on gdm?
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> GDM works on sessions.  You would need to create a ctwm session.  See
> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q16 for more details.  And
> yes, GDM should work with ctwm.
> 

	Thanks much.  I'll turn gdm on and maybe kde will also work.
	BTW, it'll be interesting to see if this works in my Ubuntu
	system where I have a short, sweet ctwm login underway.

	gary


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