There was a thread on this very problem a while back. Go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and search for the subject "cannot set gnome as default session". In one of my posts, I described what I thought to be the problem, but I don't remember whether my suspicions were confirmed or denied. I do believe it's a software flaw.
I have 8.2, and I don't remember if the problem still exists (I've been using KDE for a while). But I'll tell you what I did to "hack" a solution: since fndSession calls "chksession", I changed two lines in chksession that deleted and recreated the "Default" link. I changed "Default" to "default" and gdm took it. (Just read my posts for clarity on that. Try at your own risk. :D) - Kathy On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 15:11, Dave Sherman wrote: > 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
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