On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:48 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 Did you read the documentation README.Fedora where it says: To use SLiM with Fedora, put the following in your /etc/sysconfig/desktop configuration: DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/bin/slim-dynwm To reboot or halt, login in as special username "reboot" or "halt" - using the root password. To get a console prompt use username "console", and to switch sessions use F1, screenshot F11. To view screenshots you can use ImageMagick: convert /slim.xwd /slim.png -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines