Re: How can I change the login window?

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On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 15:18 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
> 
> But
> 
> # dir /etc/sysconfig/desktop
> dir: cannot access /etc/sysconfig/desktop: No such file or directory
> #

You'll note that prefdm reads the file if it exists, otherwise it uses
defaults. Thus you have to create it if you want to change the defaults,
but it's not a big deal. Here's mine:

# cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
#!/bin/sh
DESKTOP="KDE"
DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"

That's it.

poc

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