On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 14:29 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Malcolm Kay > <malcolm.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I am running XFCE on F9. How can I change the login window? > >> > > XFCE doesn't present a login window. You can run this window > > manager after logging in oon a console command line. > > > > The graphical login window is presented by whichever display > > manager you are using -- usually gdm, kdm or xdm. Selecting a > > different display manager will give you a different presentation, > > and if you don't like any of these then you can write your own > > or look for what else might have already been written. > > > > The display manager is normally activated by prefdm referenced in > > /etc/inittab. It will also honour a DISPLAYMANAGER variable set > > in /etc/initscript. > > Thanks, Malcom. My /etc/inittab is below. How can I change the default > theme to the Circles one? In F8, there was a menu entry > > System --> Login manager > > (or something like that), but nothing in F9. [...] > # Run xdm in runlevel 5 > x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon /etc/X11/prefdm is just a Shell script. It basically just reads /etc/sysconfig/desktop and acts accordingly, so the easiest way to add a new display manager is to edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
