Gordon: > I was curious (yes, that's part of the problem:) and decided to try > gdm instead of cde-login. So I did: > svcadm disable cde-login > svcadm enable gdm > > All seemed well (Hey - new login screen!) > until I found a need to do ctrl+alt+backspace, > which left my keyboard in up/down event mode. > Had to ssh from another machine and run: > /usr/openwin/bin/kdb_mode -a > to make the console usable again. [1] > > This didn't happen when cde-login was handling > the startup of Xorg for me, so I guess there is some > session startup magic in cde-login that we need to > port over into the gdm config, right? Anyone know > what needs to be done?
I don't think there is any special magic with starting Xorg via GDM versus CDE login. Note that /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop runs /usr/dt/config/Xsession.jds. The gnome.desktop file is what GDM uses to know what program to run to start your GNOME session. The /usr/dt/config/Xsession.jds script runs /usr/dt/bin/Xsession, which is the same script that gets run when using CDE login to start your session. So the process for starting the session is fairly similar. Having said that, GDM and CDE login may setup the user environment a bit differently. However, I'm not aware of any differences that would affect the state of the console. Brian
