kdm vs xdm
Hi guys This is probably a stupid question, but here goes. At the moment I boot into KDE using xdm. How do I change my setup to use kdm instead. I changed the line in /etc/X11/default-display-manager from xdm to kdm, however this then requires a startx to boot into kde. regards mark -- Mark Annandale Poole, U.K. -- Debian 3.0 - KDE 3.1.1 - KMail 1.5.1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kdm vs xdm
Hi Mark At the moment I boot into KDE using xdm. How do I change my setup to use kdm instead. I changed the line in /etc/X11/default-display-manager from xdm to kdm, however this then requires a startx to boot into kde. Are you sure you have installed kdm? Check with dpkg -l kdm If yes, try dpkg-reconfigure kdm You won't need xdm anymore, so remove it. Just guessing, but these are the steps I would try if I were in your situation joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kdm vs xdm
Hi Mark, Are you sure you installed kdm correctly, ;-)? David On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Mark Annandale wrote: Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:09:08 +0200 From: Mark Annandale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: kdm vs xdm Resent-Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 04:25:26 -0600 (CST) Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi guys This is probably a stupid question, but here goes. At the moment I boot into KDE using xdm. How do I change my setup to use kdm instead. I changed the line in /etc/X11/default-display-manager from xdm to kdm, however this then requires a startx to boot into kde. regards mark -- Mark Annandale Poole, U.K. -- Debian 3.0 - KDE 3.1.1 - KMail 1.5.1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kdm vs xdm
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:09:08AM +0200, Mark Annandale wrote: Hi guys This is probably a stupid question, but here goes. At the moment I boot into KDE using xdm. How do I change my setup to use kdm instead. I changed the line in /etc/X11/default-display-manager from xdm to kdm, however this then requires a startx to boot into kde. One way of doing this is to remove xdm. I'm sure others will point you to more satisfactory methods. # apt-get --purge install kdm xdm- Note the - after xdm - it says to remove the package even though you've specified an install command. The --purge is just there for tidyness - leave it out if you might reinstall xdm and want to keep its config files around in the interim period. Hope this helps, jc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kdm vs xdm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:09:08AM +0200, Mark Annandale wrote: At the moment I boot into KDE using xdm. When did KDE become an OS and xdm a boot manager? 8:o) How do I change my setup to use kdm instead. I changed the line in /etc/X11/default-display-manager from xdm to kdm, however this then requires a startx to boot into kde. dpkg --purge xdm apt-get install kdm - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+iZBUJ5vLSqVpK2kRAjICAKCODNhdflWvnoXUbEFpdoqNrpXGQACg0LBh CgU1akqkZ8uvW0xhLAKEQog= =is/U -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDM vs XDM
On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 11:18:35AM -0500, Brian Morgan wrote: I'd like to be able to change my default login manager to KDM instead of XDM, now that I have KDE up and running. What do I need to do to make this happen? I notice there have already been several answers to this question, but here's my take on it. Whoever packages kwm should just follow my example in the xdm package. If kwm would do that, people wouldn't have to screw with all this init script editing or displacing of binaries. They could just: dpkg --remove xdm apt-get install kdm (kdm might be robust enough to be installed without a pre-existing xdm in place; if so, great, you're easily in business) Since the Great X Reorganization, replacement of many X components is far easier than it used to be. People came up with all these kludges because you couldn't uninstall xdm without taking a lot of other stuff you needed with it. xdm is now its own package, and that is no longer the case. You can remove xdm without affecting the rest of your system in the slightest. Anyone who knows to whom to forward this for results, please do so. -- G. Branden Robinson |I have a truly elegant proof of the Debian GNU/Linux |above, but it is too long to fit into [EMAIL PROTECTED] |this .signature file. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpumVhXiBwbn.pgp Description: PGP signature
KDM vs XDM
I'd like to be able to change my default login manager to KDM instead of XDM, now that I have KDE up and running. What do I need to do to make this happen? Brian Brian Morganhttp://brian.greenville.edu Computer Support Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mobile Systems Support 618.664.2800 ext. 4241 Greenville College IT Dept. 618.338.4963 - pager __ The end of the world is in late Beta ... no, hang on. Bill Gates just bought it . . . we're safe again.
Re: KDM vs XDM
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: I'd like to be able to change my default login manager to KDM instead of XDM, now that I have KDE up and running. What do I need to do to make this happen? You should find a command called switchdm (I think it is in /usr/sbin/switchdm but my Debian/KDE box is at home). Run this as root and it will ask you if you want [1] xdm, [2] kdm or [3] Neither. Press 2 and you should have kdm next time you restart X. I found about this in the docs in /usr/doc/kdebase . The docs may not be there if you built KDE from source -- I installed it from the debs onthe Cheapbytes CD. All the best Hugh == Hugh C. Pumphrey, Dept. of -| Tel. 0131-650-6026,Fax:0131-650-5780 Meteorology, Univ. of Edinburgh | Replace 0131 with +44-131 if outside U.K EDINBURGH EH9 3JZ, Scotland | Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==P=l=e=a=s=e==N=o=t=e==t=h=e==N=e=w==F=A=X==N=u=m=b=e=r==
RE: KDM vs XDM
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: I'd like to be able to change my default login manager to KDM instead of XDM, now that I have KDE up and running. What do I need to do to make this happen? H C Pumphrey wrote: You should find a command called switchdm (I think it is in /usr/sbin/switchdm but my Debian/KDE box is at home). Run this as root and it will ask you if you want [1] xdm, [2] kdm or [3] Neither. Press 2 and you should have kdm next time you restart X. Ran switchdm but I do not have an /etc/X11/config file, which switchdm relies on. I am running slink and recent versions of XFree86, KDE, etc. Isn't there a different file that slink uses to control its login manager settings? Any suggestions? Brian
Re: KDM vs XDM
In a message dated 4/22/99 12:26:38 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should find a command called switchdm (I think it is in /usr/sbin/switchdm but my Debian/KDE box is at home). Run this as root and it will ask you if you want [1] xdm, [2] kdm or [3] Neither. Press 2 and you should have kdm next time you restart X. Ran switchdm but I do not have an /etc/X11/config file, which switchdm relies on. I am running slink and recent versions of XFree86, KDE, etc. Isn't there a different file that slink uses to control its login manager settings? The options file only had an entry that instructed Linux whether or not to start xdm, not whether it should start xdm or kdm... However, if you put a start-kdm line in options, and change your startup scripts to recognize the new line, it'll work as the start-xdm line does. However, all of this is moot - you're running slink, and the options file isn't used in slink. So, I still say, just save your old xdm binary and put the new kdm in it's place. -Jay
RE: KDM vs XDM
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: Ran switchdm [to set kdm as default login manager] but I do not have an /etc/X11/config file, which switchdm relies on. I am running slink and recent versions of XFree86, KDE, etc. Isn't there a different file that slink uses to control its login manager settings? I am running more-or-less pure slink, upgraded from hamm. I think you may need the xdm package installed before switchdm can work, even if you un-install it later. I seem to recall (from all of two days ago) that I dpkg -purge ed xdm while X was up and some very odd things happened. I rapidly dpkg --install ed it again and switchdm then worked fine. I am actually a bit out of my depth here. Calling all display manager gurus Hugh == Hugh C. Pumphrey, Dept. of -| Tel. 0131-650-6026,Fax:0131-650-5780 Meteorology, Univ. of Edinburgh | Replace 0131 with +44-131 if outside U.K EDINBURGH EH9 3JZ, Scotland | Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==P=l=e=a=s=e==N=o=t=e==t=h=e==N=e=w==F=A=X==N=u=m=b=e=r==
FW: KDM vs XDM
You should find a command called switchdm (I think it is in /usr/sbin/switchdm but my Debian/KDE box is at home). Run this as root and it will ask you if you want [1] xdm, [2] kdm or [3] Neither. Press 2 and you should have kdm next time you restart X. Ran switchdm but I do not have an /etc/X11/config file, which switchdm relies on. I am running slink and recent versions of XFree86, KDE, etc. Isn't there a different file that slink uses to control its login manager settings? The options file only had an entry that instructed Linux whether or not to start xdm, not whether it should start xdm or kdm... However, if you put a start-kdm line in options, and change your startup scripts to recognize the new line, it'll work as the start-xdm line does. However, all of this is moot - you're running slink, and the options file isn't used in slink. So, I still say, just save your old xdm binary and put the new kdm in it's place. -Jay I am still kind of a newbie at this. Words like binary and compile the kernel and other threatening words like that, I've steered clear of. Could you help me know exactly how to save your old xdm binary and put the new kdm in it's place? That would be very helpful Brian
Re: KDM vs XDM
In a message dated 4/22/99 12:34:01 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks. I am still kind of a newbie at this. Words like binary and
compile the kernel and other threatening words like that, I've steered
clear of. Could you help me know exactly what you mean when you say save
your old xdm binary and put the new kdm in it's place?
Sure. :)
First off, I just checked my laptop (where I run my slink box) and it turns
out I went about it the long way and modified my scripts to recognize
start-kdm as well as start-xdm. So, let me give you both ways..
1) The easiest way, but probably not the best way, is to rename your binaries.
cd /usr/X11R6/bin
mv xdm xdm.orig
ln -s kdm xdm
2) The other way is more involved, but probably closer to The Debian Way.
In /etc/X11/xdm, there is a file called xdm.options. That is hamm's
options file,
basically. If there's a line in it that reads start-xdm, change it
to
no-start-xdm. Then, add a line start-kdm below that. (PS - You
can
turn off kdm by changing it to no-start-kdm). You can't have both
on
tho - the script I'm about to give you will complain.
Then, cd /etc/init.d and mv xdm xdm.orig. This saves off your
original
start xdm script just in case you want it back.
Now, still in the init.d dir, take the attached file and save it as
xdm.
Hope that helps.
Jay
#!/bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/xdm: start or stop the X display manager
set -e
START_XDM=
START_KDM=
if grep -s ^start-xdm /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options; then
START_XDM=yes
fi
if grep -s ^start-kdm /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options; then
START_KDM=yes
fi
if [ $START_KDM ]; then
if [ $START_XDM ]; then
echo Unable to start both xdm and kdm!
exit 1
fi
else
if [ ! $START_XDM ]; then
echo Nothing to start!
exit 0
fi
fi
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
XDMDAEMON=/usr/bin/X11/xdm
KDMDAEMON=/usr/bin/X11/kdm
PIDFILE=/var/run/xdm.pid
if [ $START_XDM ]; then
test -x $XDMDAEMON || exit 0
fi
if [ $START_KDM ]; then
test -x $KDMDAEMON || exit 0
fi
if grep -qs ^check-local-xserver /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options; then
if head -1 /etc/X11/Xserver 2 /dev/null | grep -q Xsun; then
# the Xsun X servers do not use XF86Config
CHECK_LOCAL_XSERVER=
else
CHECK_LOCAL_XSERVER=yes
fi
fi
case $1 in
start)
if [ $CHECK_LOCAL_XSERVER ]; then
problem=yes
echo -n Checking for valid XFree86 server configuration...
if [ -e /etc/X11/XF86Config ]; then
if [ -x /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config ]; then
if parse-xf86config --quiet --nowarning --noadvisory
/etc/X11/XF86Config; then
problem=
else
echo error in configuration file.
fi
else
echo unable to check.
fi
else
echo file not found.
fi
if [ $problem ]; then
echo Not starting X display manager.
exit 1
else
echo done.
fi
fi
if [ $START_XDM ]; then
echo -n Starting X display manager: xdm
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pid $PIDFILE --exec $XDMDAEMON ||
echo -n already running
else
echo -n Starting X display manager: kdm
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pid $PIDFILE --exec $KDMDAEMON ||
echo -n already running
fi
echo .
;;
restart)
/etc/init.d/xdm stop
/etc/init.d/xdm start
;;
reload)
echo -n Reloading X display manager configuration...
if start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --pid $PIDFILE; then
echo done.
else
if [ $START_XDM ]; then
echo xdm not running.
else
echo kdm not running.
fi
fi
;;
force-reload)
/etc/init.d/xdm reload
;;
stop)
if [ $START_XDM ]; then
echo -n Stopping X display manager: xdm
else
echo -n Stopping X display manager: kdm
fi
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pid $PIDFILE || echo -n not running
echo .
;;
*)
echo Usage: /etc/init.d/xdm {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
