Re: [expert] GDM doesn't remember default/last desktop

2002-07-03 Thread K Montgomery

Well, shucks. :)

- Kathy

On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 22:35, J. Craig Woods wrote:
 Kathy you are the woman! And another satisfied customer returns to his
 keyboard.
 
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Re: [expert] GDM doesn't remember default/last desktop

2002-07-02 Thread K Montgomery

There was a thread on this very problem a while back.  Go to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and search for the
subject cannot set gnome as default session.  In one of my posts, I
described what I thought to be the problem, but I don't remember whether
my suspicions were confirmed or denied.  I do believe it's a software
flaw.

I have 8.2, and I don't remember if the problem still exists (I've been
using KDE for a while). But I'll tell you what I did to hack a
solution: since fndSession calls chksession, I changed two lines in
chksession that deleted and recreated the Default link.  I changed
Default to default and gdm took it.  (Just read my posts for clarity
on that. Try at your own risk. :D)

- Kathy 

On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 15:11, Dave Sherman wrote: 
 Yes,  I had already made that change in order to be able to use gdm in
 the first place.
 
 I should also point out that kdm works perfectly, remembering my last
 session, even though the default is still kde. As long as I log into
 Gnome, then I will get Gnome the next time -- even after a reboot.
 
 Also, for what it's worth, I ran into this problem a number of months
 ago when I did not have Ximian yet. I figured since I was running Gnome
 I might as well use gdm for my login manager. But after a week of
 screwing around with it, I gave up and went back to kdm because I knew
 that kdm *worked*.
 
 My only conclusion can be that Mandrake's version of gdm is flawed, and
 installing Ximian did not overcome the problem. Perhaps it is one of the
 startup scripts, overwriting any changes that are made to
 /etc/gdm/gdm.conf or some other file?
 
 Dave




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Re: [expert] GDM doesn't remember default/last desktop

2002-07-02 Thread Dave Sherman

On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 09:07, K Montgomery wrote:
 There was a thread on this very problem a while back.  Go to
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] and search for the
 subject cannot set gnome as default session.  In one of my posts, I
 described what I thought to be the problem, but I don't remember whether
 my suspicions were confirmed or denied.  I do believe it's a software
 flaw.
 
 I have 8.2, and I don't remember if the problem still exists (I've been
 using KDE for a while). But I'll tell you what I did to hack a
 solution: since fndSession calls chksession, I changed two lines in
 chksession that deleted and recreated the Default link.  I changed
 Default to default and gdm took it.  (Just read my posts for clarity
 on that. Try at your own risk. :D)
 
 - Kathy 

I went to the archives and followed what you did, Kathy. GDM defaults to
Gnome now :-) Thanks!

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Re: [expert] GDM doesn't remember default/last desktop

2002-07-02 Thread J. Craig Woods

Dave Sherman wrote:
 
 On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 09:07, K Montgomery wrote:
 (Just read my posts for clarity
  on that. Try at your own risk. :D)
 
  - Kathy
 
 I went to the archives and followed what you did, Kathy. GDM defaults to
 Gnome now :-) Thanks!
 
 --
 Dave Sherman 

Kathy you are the woman! And another satisfied customer returns to his
keyboard.

drjung

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UNIX/NT Network/System Administration
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Re: [expert] GDM doesn't remember default/last desktop

2002-06-23 Thread James

Don't know it this will help but in /etc/syconconfig there is a file
called desktop.  Make sure that is set to GNOME  not KDE.

James


On 22 Jun 2002 22:45:45 -0500
Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority

 Here's the situation:
 I am running Mandrake 8.1, mostly kept up to date through the
 MandrakeUpdate program. I was using kdm for my login manager, but
 Gnome for my desktop. The default was KDE, but I always let it use my
 last session, which was Gnome every time. I recently installed
 Ximian desktop, and replaced kdm with gdm for my login manager. I have
 two problems with gdm:
 1. It refuses to remember my last session after rebooting
 (this is a laptop, so I reboot at least twice a day, when
 travelling from home to the office and back). Therefore if I
 forget to select Gnome the first time I login, I end up in KDE
 and must logout and then login again, selecting Gnome in the
 process. 2. It will not remember the default desktop if I
 change it to Gnome. After a reboot, it is always reset to
 default to KDE, which leaves me back at problem #1.
 
 Is this a known issue? I have run gdmconf a number of times, and it
 seems to accept my change to default the desktop to Gnome, but after
 rebooting it is always back to KDE again.
 
 -- 
 Dave Sherman   Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, 
 MCSE, MCSA, CCNA for you are crunchy,
  and good with ketchup.
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Re: [expert] GDM doesn't remember default/last desktop

2002-06-23 Thread Dave Sherman

Yes,  I had already made that change in order to be able to use gdm in
the first place.

I should also point out that kdm works perfectly, remembering my last
session, even though the default is still kde. As long as I log into
Gnome, then I will get Gnome the next time -- even after a reboot.

Also, for what it's worth, I ran into this problem a number of months
ago when I did not have Ximian yet. I figured since I was running Gnome
I might as well use gdm for my login manager. But after a week of
screwing around with it, I gave up and went back to kdm because I knew
that kdm *worked*.

My only conclusion can be that Mandrake's version of gdm is flawed, and
installing Ximian did not overcome the problem. Perhaps it is one of the
startup scripts, overwriting any changes that are made to
/etc/gdm/gdm.conf or some other file?

Dave

On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 12:58, James wrote:
 Don't know it this will help but in /etc/syconconfig there is a file
 called desktop.  Make sure that is set to GNOME  not KDE.
 
 James
 
 
 On 22 Jun 2002 22:45:45 -0500
 Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority
 
  Here's the situation:
  I am running Mandrake 8.1, mostly kept up to date through the
  MandrakeUpdate program. I was using kdm for my login manager, but
  Gnome for my desktop. The default was KDE, but I always let it use my
  last session, which was Gnome every time. I recently installed
  Ximian desktop, and replaced kdm with gdm for my login manager. I have
  two problems with gdm:
  1. It refuses to remember my last session after rebooting
  (this is a laptop, so I reboot at least twice a day, when
  travelling from home to the office and back). Therefore if I
  forget to select Gnome the first time I login, I end up in KDE
  and must logout and then login again, selecting Gnome in the
  process. 2. It will not remember the default desktop if I
  change it to Gnome. After a reboot, it is always reset to
  default to KDE, which leaves me back at problem #1.

-- 
Dave Sherman   Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, 
MCSE, MCSA, CCNA for you are crunchy,
 and good with ketchup.
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[expert] GDM doesn't remember default/last desktop

2002-06-22 Thread Dave Sherman

Here's the situation:
I am running Mandrake 8.1, mostly kept up to date through the
MandrakeUpdate program. I was using kdm for my login manager, but Gnome
for my desktop. The default was KDE, but I always let it use my last
session, which was Gnome every time. I recently installed Ximian
desktop, and replaced kdm with gdm for my login manager. I have two
problems with gdm:
1. It refuses to remember my last session after rebooting (this
is a laptop, so I reboot at least twice a day, when travelling from home
to the office and back). Therefore if I forget to select Gnome the first
time I login, I end up in KDE and must logout and then login again,
selecting Gnome in the process.
2. It will not remember the default desktop if I change it to
Gnome. After a reboot, it is always reset to default to KDE, which
leaves me back at problem #1.

Is this a known issue? I have run gdmconf a number of times, and it
seems to accept my change to default the desktop to Gnome, but after
rebooting it is always back to KDE again.

-- 
Dave Sherman   Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, 
MCSE, MCSA, CCNA for you are crunchy,
 and good with ketchup.
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