No KDE login screen

zen0 · 11-16-2004, 04:12 AM

I'm (almost) happily using KDE 3.3, but the its login screen doesn't display (despite configuring it within KDE)- instead I get a very bog-standard X login box. After that KDE starts fine. There aren't any error messages (none that I can see, at least...). Now I'm sure someone could tell me a nice easy way to change this

otoomet · 11-16-2004, 08:43 AM

Hi!

It sounds that kdm is not your default login manager. Did you install it? Did you make it the preferred one? Have you tried

# dpkg-reconfigure kdm

? Another way to fix it is to edit the inittab file (/etc/inittab on RH9, I haven't my debian box right here). The last lines look like

Code:

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

prefdm runs the default login manager. You may replace prefdm by kdm. But try more system-friendly configuration first.

best,

Ott

zen0 · 11-16-2004, 10:26 AM

Thanks a lot...I think I originally installed the 'kde' packages and assumed that the k login manager would be part of that set. Simple install of kdm did the trick!