Yes, I had already made that change in order to be able to use gdm in the first place.
I should also point out that kdm works perfectly, remembering my last
session, even though the default is still kde. As long as I log into
Gnome, then I will get Gnome the next time -- even after a reboot.
Also, for what it's worth, I ran into this problem a number of months
ago when I did not have Ximian yet. I figured since I was running Gnome
I might as well use gdm for my login manager. But after a week of
screwing around with it, I gave up and went back to kdm because I knew
that kdm *worked*.
My only conclusion can be that Mandrake's version of gdm is flawed, and
installing Ximian did not overcome the problem. Perhaps it is one of the
startup scripts, overwriting any changes that are made to
/etc/gdm/gdm.conf or some other file?
Dave
On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 12:58, James wrote:
> Don't know it this will help but in /etc/syconconfig there is a file
> called desktop. Make sure that is set to GNOME not KDE.
>
> James
>
>
> On 22 Jun 2002 22:45:45 -0500
> Dave Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority
>
> > Here's the situation:
> > I am running Mandrake 8.1, mostly kept up to date through the
> > MandrakeUpdate program. I was using kdm for my login manager, but
> > Gnome for my desktop. The default was KDE, but I always let it use my
> > "last" session, which was Gnome every time. I recently installed
> > Ximian desktop, and replaced kdm with gdm for my login manager. I have
> > two problems with gdm:
> > 1. It refuses to remember my last session after rebooting
> > (this is a laptop, so I reboot at least twice a day, when
> > travelling from home to the office and back). Therefore if I
> > forget to select Gnome the first time I login, I end up in KDE
> > and must logout and then login again, selecting Gnome in the
> > process. 2. It will not remember the default desktop if I
> > change it to Gnome. After a reboot, it is always reset to
> > default to KDE, which leaves me back at problem #1.
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