On Tuesday July 1 2003 09:36 pm, Bill Winegarden wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 July 2003 07:56 am, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > > I managed to login as root, start kde and setup my user
> > > to automatically login to kde so I know it is still
> > > functional but I can't find the configuration utility to
> > > clean up the login process. I don't like the auto login
> > > situation.
> > > Where in the config area can I find what I need?
> >
> > There's a good chance /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc got
> > truncated or corrupted, a long with many other possibilities.
> > For now, use mcc | system | choose the display manager, and
> > switch to GDM. It'll probly work, when mdkkdm or kdm fail.
>
> Thanks for the heads up. I tried your suggestion and when I get
> into MCC / System there is no display manager. These are the
> components available. Menu == Services==Fonts==Date and
> Time==Logs==Console==Users==Programs scheduling==Backups
>
> Is there another place where it may be found?
Make sure you have a 'gdm.......rpm' installed.
'rpm -qa | grep -i gdm' if that doesn't return a gdm rpm, then
there's one on your CD's.
Then, as root, edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop and add a line,
DISPLAYMANAGER=GDM
(for some versions it might be =GNOME ,try GDM first)
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