Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 - KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-12-03 Thread Rex Dieter
John Horne wrote: > I find it very odd, to say the least, that if I tell CentOS/RHEL 6 to > install KDE and not Gnome, it goes ahead and uses GDM rather than KDM. That's a bug that was fixed in fedora at some point, probably after rhel6 branched development -- rex

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 - KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-12-02 Thread Scot P. Floess
Sorry, I was definitely wrong. Was away from my computer when I responded :) As root, simply create /etc/sysconfig/desktop. You will want this in that file: DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE It's as simple as executing this as root: echo "DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE" > /etc/sysconfig/desktop I think you may need

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 - KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-12-01 Thread Scot P. Floess
Just create the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop and put in it: DESKTOP=KDM I believe it's DESKTOP - you can dbl check /etc/X11/prefdm Sent from my phoneMike Watson wrote:The last reply to this subject said to modify /etc/sysconfig/desktop to change GDM to KDM. This would then enable the KDE login

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 - KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-12-01 Thread Mike Watson
The last reply to this subject said to modify /etc/sysconfig/desktop to change GDM to KDM. This would then enable the KDE login screen instead of the default Gnome. However, when I checked my CentOS 6.3 system, there was no such file, no /etc/sysconfig/desktop. I've not been able to find any metho

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 - KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-11-21 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 18:45 +0100, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > John Horne wrote: > > > > I basically set the same settings, using the same method, as I did for > > my Fedora PC. As said, that works. So configuring KDE using the 'system > > settings' works in Fedora, but not in CentOS. > > well,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 - KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-11-20 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
John Horne wrote: > On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 21:04 -0500, Ted Miller wrote: >> On 11/19/2012 07:25 AM, John Horne wrote: > >>> >>> The problem is that we would like to configure the login screen, so that >>> it does not show the user list, that it does not allow the shutdown or >>> reboot commands (fr

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 - KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-11-20 Thread John Horne
On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 21:04 -0500, Ted Miller wrote: > On 11/19/2012 07:25 AM, John Horne wrote: > > > > The problem is that we would like to configure the login screen, so that > > it does not show the user list, that it does not allow the shutdown or > > reboot commands (from the login screen),

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 - KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-11-19 Thread Ted Miller
On 11/19/2012 07:25 AM, John Horne wrote: > Hello, > > We generally use CentOS for some servers, and so do not use a GUI > interface. However, I have recently installed CentOS 6.3 onto a PC with > KDE. I am familiar with KDE as I use it with Fedora for my work PC. > > The problem is that we would l

[CentOS] CentOS 6.3 - KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-11-19 Thread John Horne
Hello, We generally use CentOS for some servers, and so do not use a GUI interface. However, I have recently installed CentOS 6.3 onto a PC with KDE. I am familiar with KDE as I use it with Fedora for my work PC. The problem is that we would like to configure the login screen, so that it does not