On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 22:56 +0000, Stuart Sears wrote: > On Friday 25 March 2005 22:38, Mark Nixon wrote: > > Until recently, I had Bluecurve as a graphical greeter. After I > Bluecurve is just a theme - what you had was gdm... :-) > > updated KDE to 3.3.2 a few weeks ago, it was gone. All I get is a > > chintzy little black and white login. I've just updated to 3.4, and > > it's the same. > kdm is also themable/customisable if you so deisre, but it may be more > trouble than it's worth to you > > I've tried GDMsetup, but it doesn't change a thing. I've obviously > > borked something, but I can't figure out what. Is this an XWindows > > thing? > This is happening because /etc/X11/prefdm reads /etc/sysconfig/desktop > to see what your preferred desktop is (GNOME or KDE mostly) and starts > the relevant display (login) manager - you are probably seeing kdm > because your default desktop is now KDE. > Change /etc/sysconfig/desktop to GNOME and your should get gdm back... My /etc/sysconfig has: DESKTOP="GNOME" DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE > Alternatively you can change the line in /etc/inittab which says > x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon > to > x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/gdm -nodaemon I'll try that. Thanks. Mark
