On Monday 25 November 2002 11:44 am, Erik Bågfors wrote: > On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 13:32, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > > You are right, it doesn't sound like anything an MUA installation > > should change, but when I poked around my /etc/inittab, I found > > that it had been set from /usr/bin/kdm to /etc/lib/prefdm (a gnome > > component). Seems like Red Carpet assumed that, as an Evolution > > user, I should be using all Gnome stuff. > > prefdm is not a gnome component! It's a small "software" that loads > the correct dm. In your case it should load kdm for you. > > I can bet that Red Carpet doesn't change it for you but you probably > installed something else that turns things back to "the way it's > supposed to be".
Right, I have learned through this experience (why does it always require coomputer problems to learn so much about the way computers work) that prefdm is a script that reads a variable in the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop. The latter is a very small file that has a single line DISPLAYMANAGER="[preferred display manager]" [prefered display manager] can be GNOME, KDE, KDE1, KDE2, etc. It seems that Red Carpet changed that line to GNOME from KDE. I know that it was Red Carpet because I was careful to only make the single change (install Evoiution via Red Carpet). I had logged on many times between the last software installation and Evolution and know when the change occurred. -- _______________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexion.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
