> Miles (aged 7) has Redhat 7.3. I installed KDE and set it as the default, > and he has always logged in as default and got KDE. Yesterday he was > fiddling and chose gnome from the dropdown box. It just went back to the > login screen and waited for another login. I figured out that gnome was > not installed and told him thats why the gnome choice did not work. > > He asked (logically) "why is the choice there if its not installed?" > > This is a damn good question. Why do Redhat and other distributors > include a graphical login choice for a window manager that is not even > installed?
SuSE doesn't, and hasn't for a while. The kdm config is generated from a template and settings in /etc/sysconfig/* by SuSEconfig. This checks for available window managers and adjusts the kdm config accordingly. Some people hate SuSEconfig, but I find the principle very good for saving admin time by doing things I don't want to have to find out about. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
