Re: XDM

[Matthew Berg <wdomburg pce net>]

Steve Lincoln wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I recently switched from kdm (KDE) to gdm to run my graphical login.  Problem
> is that now when I login to my computer user superx X server I don't get to see
> the pretty Gnome screen,  but rather the plain old redhat one,  while on the
> local computer it does display gdm?  What gives?
> Steve

It sounds like you're still running xdm rather than gdm.  I'll give you
the procedure I used.  I'm not sure if it is the way the author intended
but it works.  :)

You need to go into /usr/etc/gdm and edit gdm.conf to include 

	[servers]
	0=/usr/bin/X11/X

And then go into /etc and comment out the following line in inittab

	x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm -nodaemon

Then create a file gdm in /etc/rc.d/init.d with the following line 

	gdm

And then a symbolic link S99gdm in /etc/rc5.d to that file.

Hope that helps,
Matthew Berg