Are there any KDM experts out there that can offer some insight into this problem...
I am migrating a system from SuSE linux 7.3 (I havn't found any strings identifying the version, but it says KDE2.2.1 on the box) to current Gentoo, and am having trouble finding a kdmrc setting that is as usable as the old SuSE one. I have configured the greeter on both systems with as far as I can see equivalent settings, with no default user or user list, and a clock rather than bitmap. That all works ok. Now on my old SuSE KDM, underneath the Password line is heading "Session Type" with a drop down menu which in its passive state shows the window manager that will be used by default once you enter your user name. On the bottom line are four buttons/menus: Go, Clear, Menu and Shutdown, with 'menu' just containing the 'restart x-server' option. However on my Gentoo install, I get no "Session Type" line, and only three options on the bottom line: Login, Clear and Menu. Now the "Shutdown" and "Session Type" functionality does exist on the gentoo setup, but it is burried down in the 'Menu' sub-menus, nowhere near as convenient to get to, and as I change window managers all the time, annoying not to have a display of what the default is going to be for the next session. So I am curious - is there a setting somewhere that I have not stumbled accross that controls this behaviour? Has KDM taken a backward step? Or did SuSE make some improvements that hasn't found their way into other systems yet?? I know it may seem like a small cosmetic feature, but it is the first thing someone sees when sitting down at the system, and it creates a bad first impression if the move to gentoo looks like having lost functionality even before you log in. Any ideas? Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
