On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 20:38, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > Hi! > > After emerging kde I started kdm (as stated in the Desktop > Configuration Guide). I logged on as normal user and spent some time > playing around with it. I also added xdm to the default runlevel with > 'DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm' in /etc/rc.conf . Then I wanted to see how it > boots, so I rebooted the machine and kdm came up just fine. There was > only one problem though: user panel contained all of the users, i.e. > except me and root there were all of the virtual users like 'nobody', > 'mysql', 'qmaild', etc. And the drop-down menu where you can select > the window manager showed only 'default' and 'failsafe', no 'kde' or > 'kde-3.1.1'.
In /etc/rc.conf there's a variable "XSession": # XSESSION is a new variable to control what window manager to start # default with X if run with xdm, startx or xinit. The default behavior # is to look in /etc/X11/Sessions/ and run the script in matching the # value that XSESSION is set to. The support scripts is smart enouth to # look in all bin directories if it cant find a match in /etc/X11/Sessions/, # so setting it to "enligtenment" can also work. This is basically used # as a way for the system admin to configure a default system wide WM, # allthough it will work if the user export XSESSION in his .bash_profile, etc. # # NOTE: this behaviour is overridden when a ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession exists # for the particular program run ( ~/.xinitrc for startx, ... ). # # Defaults depending on what you install currently include: # # Gnome - will start gnome-session # kde-<version> - will start startkde (ex: kde-3.0.2) # Xsession - will start a terminal and a few other nice apps #XSESSION=Gnome > Does anybody know where the kdm config files are located, so I can > delete all of the virtual user from the kdm user list and change the > drop-down menu? Can't you do it from the KDE Control Panel? I don't have KDE running on my computer but I do remember there being a whole configuration screen for KDM. > BTW, if I launch X with 'startx' as normal user then twm is started. I > found out that it is a normal fallback behavior of the XSession > script, I think, in /etc/X11/[something]/ , if it doesn't find > anything in the user's home directory and then in XSESSION global > variable. The file in your home directory is ".xinitrc" - just drop in `exec startkde` or your favorite windowmanager's executable. -- Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key DFB366F2
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