Paul Howarth wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote:
> > Paul Howarth wrote:
> >>On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 16:31 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> >>>2-How do I switch among login managers?
> >>Setting DISPLAYMANAGER=GNOME in /etc/sysconfig/desktop should result in
> >>gdm being the selected display manager.
> > I tried that originally. I still get KDM.
> If you switch to runlevel 3 (telinit 3), log in as root and run
> /etc/X11/prefdm, which display manager do you get?
It starts KDM, but remains in runlevel 3.
> Do you have the gdm RPM installed?
Thanks! Turns out I didn't. I expected gdm not to be a separate package,
and/or to be automatically installed when selecting Gnome for X during
initial installation. Now with /etc/sysconfig/desktop as above, init 5
starts gdm, which does allow root login.
Now that this works I'd still like to be able to fix KDM to allow root
login and to show Gnome as a session type. Oh, and now restoring the
original /etc/sysconfig/desktop from installation fails to switch back
to KDM. :-( I have to change it to DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE from the original
DESKTOP="KDE" to get back KDM. Where's the doc that lists valid values
for /etc/sysconfig/desktop? NAICT, /etc/X11/prefdm doesn't indicate
whether quotes are required around the specified value in desktop.
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