On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> No problem, Axalon...
>
> In /etc/X11/prefdm, I changed every occurrence of gdm and kdm such that gdm
> was always evaluated first:
[..]
>
> The why?: Well I couldn't get KDM to work so I moved it out of the way of
> GDM in prefdm.
Ah, IC
echo 'GNOME' > /etc/sysconfig/desktop
> Next, in the /etc/X11/gdm directory, I edited gdm.conf to specify the
> marble3D gtkrc file for my login dialog background. Then I moved on to the
> ./Sessions directory, where I changed my 'Default' link to point to
> 'Enlightenment', and my 'default' link to point to 'Default':
[..]
> Why?: Enlightenment is faster, imho, without gome-session's management, and
> in fact manages apps and windows better.
Doh! we should probably be reading the desktop file also huh, it will get
a new field. This is done somewhere for something else also so should be
easy to track down and implement consistantly.
[..]
> That's about it. I did encounter one strange thing though: I couldn't
> change my login background color or bitmap in GDM; but when I ran KDE
> (solely for the purpose of bringing up the KDE Desktop Manager applet to
> change the background of __it's__ login screen), it actually changed the
> background color for GDM's login window. Any idea why that would happen?
> I was happy to get the tile background to change for GDM, but I don't like
> mysterious fixes.
>
> Hope my info is useful to you. And please let me know if you understand
> the strange KFM/GDM background mystery.
>
> Tim
less /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
it's not the smartest script in the world but eh..
> Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Oh yes; In fact I think this is a common problem. I got around it by
> > > editing prefdm to choose gdm first over kdm, then editing the files in
> > > /etc/X11/gdm to suit. Hope this is useful.
> > > Tim
> >
> > "to suit" care to elborate, what you changed and why? :)
> >
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