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Grayhane 04-09-2003 10:37 PM

Mandrake 91 Graphical login
 
Mandrake 91 in the graphical mode I cannot get the system to boot up with the standard gdm login . If I startt at init 3 and then type gdm the login screen I want to use is shown rather than the lame Mandrake face thing. Any ideas as to How I chang that for good ?
Have tried GDM configurator but seems to not stick.
Thanks

frieza 04-09-2003 11:07 PM

i think one way would be to edit the line in the /etc/inittab file
it should look something like:
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/gdm -nodaemon
hope this helps, cheers :)

Grayhane 04-10-2003 12:07 AM

I dont seem to have any lines in the file close to the one you listed,

grub 04-10-2003 12:49 AM

Grayhane you can try this
If you use startx you can enter X windows directly with the present login.
OR use 'init 5' this takes you to a login screen in X.
Hope this helps you:D

Grayhane 04-10-2003 02:51 AM

Let me restate whats what, starting from init level 3 ( text mode ) I can type gdm and get one interface for login (gnome ) or using startx get the lame one with the faces on it,

What I want to do is change settings so gdm is the default and the login screen is the one with gnome on it and not the graphic faces

thanks

grub 04-10-2003 03:29 AM

Edit the inittab as suggested by frieza.
At one place in the inittab, you will see all the init levels from 0 to 6.
change the level 5, as per the suggestion and set the default init level to 5.

neenee 04-10-2003 09:31 AM

but if you're on slackware, set it to 4.

frieza 04-10-2003 10:07 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Grayhane
I dont seem to have any lines in the file close to the one you listed,
hmm, it should be at the bottom of the inittab file, but then again my distributions are redhat based, so perhaps the inittab file structure are different

tcaptain 04-10-2003 10:09 AM

In mandrake 9.1 you go to the Mandrake Control Center... click hardware and click on the display manager chooser (Looks like traffic lights) it will let you choose your DM (just click GDM and when you reboot, that's the one that will pop up)

Grayhane 04-10-2003 02:49 PM

Thank you all !!!!!!!
I now know how to do it both in the GUI and via the file.

And to tcaptain, thanks for showing me how lame I can be at times, I must have looked at that stop lite a dozen times along the way.

tcaptain 04-10-2003 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Grayhane
Thank you all !!!!!!!
I now know how to do it both in the GUI and via the file.

And to tcaptain, thanks for showing me how lame I can be at times, I must have looked at that stop lite a dozen times along the way.

My intention was not to show you that you are lame :D You aren't lame, you just missed an option...trust me, I didn't know either until I read a post about switching dm in Mandrake.

And since I've been having problems with KDM, that knowledge came in handy :D

10Forge 04-10-2003 10:50 PM

I have the same annoying problem using Redhat 9.
/etc/inittab
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

this line led me to the /etc/X11/prefdm

/etc/X11/prefdm
preferred=
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then
. /etc/sysconfig/desktop
if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GNOME ]; then
preferred=gdm
elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then
preferred=kdm
elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then
preferred=xdm

so now i'm looking at /etc/sysconfig/desktop

/etc/sysconfig/desktop
DESKTOP="KDE"

finally...i like linux, but there has to be an easier way (maybe that's the newbie talking)

slickrcbd 04-11-2003 11:23 PM

probably the newbie talking, but hey, it's just like learning anything. it's hard at first, but 'easy' is relitive, once you become good at linux it will seem easy, and you'll be wondering how you got tripped up on this little snag in the first place, and looking at thins you call a 'little snag' that would have seemed like a brick wall now :) besides, you don't have to do it entirely alone, there's always this bullitan :)


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