How can I change login manager?

Impaler · 05-20-2004, 06:44 AM

I just installed SuSE 9.0 on a PC and I realised that it was using the xdm login manager by default. At the beggining I thought that s.thing was wrong with the kde or kdm installation-inisialisation but I tried to run kdm and it is working properly. My problem is that I don't know how to change the login manager to kdm as default. Any sugestions?

wrat · 05-20-2004, 06:51 AM

In debian I had installed both..first xdm then kdm,when I installed kdm I was querried as to which I wanted to use I chose kdm all is well..you could remove xdm and it should default to the only available...

Impaler · 05-20-2004, 07:07 AM

Thanks for your answer. I don't know how can I remove xdm. Can you give me some details?

webvandals · 06-19-2004, 05:06 AM

as root:

apt-get remove xdm

.. but actually, that might remove all of x-windows. So ya might not wanna do that ;-)

gredhat · 06-19-2004, 06:48 AM

For this u can edit a script file named prefdm, i dont know whether this will be same in suse
but have done same in redhat & fedora many times.
first check out the file in /etc/X11/prefdm if it exists then u r done otherwise............
now open the file and go to section

"# Run preferred X display manager"
then replace the xdm with the kdm like "preferred=kdm"

this should solve when u reboot .
dont know if works on suse.

vinay_s_s · 06-19-2004, 06:53 AM

i think the config for display manager is somewhere is /etc/sysconfig

or u can use the yast configuration editor, find the entry and change the displaymanager to KDM

RockmanExe · 06-19-2004, 10:13 AM

doesn't Yast has a session manager chooser, where you could switch to kdm??