Subject: Re: XDM question
From: Robert Fout (rfout@mahi.damien.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 17:57:20 MST
turns out i was using kdm, and I was able to edit the config files so that
it ran my $HOME/.xinitrc file as default, or maybe it was failsafe..
anyway.. there's only one choice, and it starts icewm now.
thanks for the help,
Bob
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> From: Jim Cole <greyleaf@yggdrasill.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 11:52:46 -0700 (MST)
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: XDM question
>
> Robert Fout's bits of Sat, 4 Mar 2000 translated to:
>
>> Okay, on to the questions. I switched to runlevel 5, rebooted, and XDM came
>> up. What file do I edit to tell XDM to use icewm, instead of its default
>> choices : KDE, GNOME, AfterStep, default and failsafe?
>
> Are you sure you are running xdm directly? As opposed to kdm or gdm? I
> don't think raw xdm even provides menu selection for session type. Then
> again, I haven't done a whole lot with it.
>
> If you are using gdm, then take a look at the files in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions.
> You can probably figure it out from there.
>
> If you are using kdm, take a look a the kdmconfig utility.
>
> Jim
>
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