On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 00:08 +0100, Mark Nixon wrote: > 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. > Oops, I accidently deleted Stuart's reply. I just tried that, and I still get a little black and white greeter with an analog clock on the right hand side. Mark
