Re: SL6 Minimal Desktop problem

[Dr Andrew C Aitchison]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Brian Long wrote:


I've installed SL6.1 Minimal Desktop in order to use IceWM on an IONITX
motherboard (Intel Atom + Nvidia ION).  When I try to login via GDM, GDM
insists on starting gnome-session even though GNOME is not fully installed.
I'm trying to determine the best method to have GDM use IceWM by default.


Have you installed
xorg-x11-xinit-session
? I needed that to use twm.


I believe I need to modify /etc/gdm/custom.conf and specify a few parameters
to force GDM to use icewm-session instead of gnome-session.  I've already
tried adding PREFERRED=icewm-session in /etc/sysconfig/desktop to no
avail.  Any additional information would be greatly appreciated.


--
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
a.c.aitchi...@dpmms.cam.ac.uk   http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

SL6 Minimal Desktop problem

[Brian Long]

I've installed SL6.1 Minimal Desktop in order to use IceWM on an IONITX
motherboard (Intel Atom + Nvidia ION).  When I try to login via GDM, GDM
insists on starting gnome-session even though GNOME is not fully installed.
 I'm trying to determine the best method to have GDM use IceWM by default.

I believe I need to modify /etc/gdm/custom.conf and specify a few parameters
to force GDM to use icewm-session instead of gnome-session.  I've already
tried adding PREFERRED=icewm-session in /etc/sysconfig/desktop to no
avail.  Any additional information would be greatly appreciated.

Also, I've noticed GDM complains about the GNOME Power Manager not being
properly installed or configured.  Is there a quick fix to disable this
warning?

Thanks for the cool distro.

/Brian/