On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Kennet R. Iversen <fedora@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have tried to get slim to start as my login manager instead of gdm, but > everything I have tried so far has not worked. > > I have installed slim via yum and then tried the following approaches: > > First I tried to put the following line in /etc/X11/default-display-manager > /usr/bin/slim > > That did not work. Then I tried to put this line in /etc/inittab: > x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null > > This did not work. I then tried to put this line in /etc/sysconfig/desktop > DISPLAYMANAGER="SLIM" > and then added these to lines in /etc/X11/prefdm just after the GNOME/gdm > part: > elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = SLIM ]; then > preferred=/usr/bin/slim > > This did not work either. I have not been able to find a solution that > works. So, how do I change the default display manager from GDM to SLIM? > > Any suggestions are welcome > Kennet Never heard of Slim before. For testing, try booting into runlevel 3 and use startx and .xinitrc. See this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=637605 Have you taken a look at the manual? http://slim.berlios.de/manual.php ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
