Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-26 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/25/2010 01:40 PM, Robert Bridge wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, but that has several bits of misinformation. xdm is not a generic term, or at least I didn't mean it that way. It's the package x11-apps/xdm. Gentoo uses the term

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 25 Aug 2010, at 04:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... My problem has been that going to /etc/init.d and commanding ./xdm stop seems to work, but has no effect on KDE. Manually killing kde (ps -ef | grep kde, etc)

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/24/2010 08:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: In order to make progress on this thing, it's useful to be able to control the display manager. My problem has been that going to /etc/init.d and commanding ./xdm stop seems to work, but has no effect on KDE. Manually killing kde (ps -ef | grep

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Mick
On 25 August 2010 15:22, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/24/2010 08:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: In order to make progress on this thing, it's useful to be able to control the display manager.  My problem has been that going to /etc/init.d and commanding ./xdm stop seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.comwrote: On 08/24/2010 08:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: In order to make progress on this thing, it's useful to be able to control the display manager. My problem has been that going to /etc/init.d and commanding ./xdm stop

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 August 2010 15:22, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/24/2010 08:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: In order to make progress on this thing, it's useful to be able to control the display manager. My

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: This problem is repeatable on my system, so I probably borked it somehow. I know this effect, this happens from time to time. At the moment it is working fine, but I got used to killall kdm when the init script did not work. It did not bother me too much, so I did not

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Robert Bridge
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, but that has several bits of misinformation. xdm is not a generic term, or at least I didn't mean it that way. It's the package x11-apps/xdm. Gentoo uses the term xdm in two ways, one is for the xdm display

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Aug 2010, at 04:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... My problem has been that going to /etc/init.d and commanding ./xdm stop seems to work, but has no effect on KDE. Manually killing kde (ps -ef | grep kde, etc) just starts another one. I finally figured out that I have to find the 'kdm'

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/25/2010 03:37 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I had more or less the opposite case -- a running daemon that was marked as stopped. Not exactly, because it was xdm marked as stopped, and kdm that was running. This problem is repeatable on my system, so I probably borked it somehow. Please

[gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm actually working to integrate a new HD monitor in a system built before HD was invented. The monitor works better than the old one, but just in 4:3 aspect mode. But that's another thread, I only mention it so you know I'm as well off as I was before the old monitor fritzed out on me. In