KDM Problems

bill.ramby · 03-29-2005, 06:00 AM

I installed KDE 4.3 and KDM was working fine. I switched over to GDM to check something out. I switched back to KDM and......, GDM is still the display manager. Not sure whats going on here.

Contents of /etc/sysconfig/desktop:
DESKTOP=KDE
DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm

System:
IBM Thinkpad T30
RHEL 3.0
KDE 3.4

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards
Bill

masand · 03-29-2005, 07:21 AM

hi there

just chek if u have /etc/X11/prefdm script,this is responsible for choosing between kdm and gdm

regards

bill.ramby · 03-29-2005, 07:39 AM

Thanks masand. That wasn't the answer, or rather was, but did lead me to an alternate answer. prefdm was looking for "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE, not "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDM as I had put in the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file. Since prefdm was executable, I decided to change desktop.

Thank you very much!

Regards
Bill R.

BTW; you wouldn't happen to know how to change the font used in the session and system menu's of KDM would you?

masand · 03-29-2005, 08:48 AM

hi there
if u have prefdm ,then it is responsible for choosing between gdm and kdm
and if u have gnome installed then it gives priority gdm i think

so what do have now?

regards

bill.ramby · 03-29-2005, 09:22 AM

I have to wait till lunch to reboot and see. I'll let you know as soon as I can.

bill.ramby · 03-29-2005, 11:45 AM

That did it. KDM is now the default DM. Thanks for your help.

Regards
Bill