Re: gdm question

[Jason Trickett <jtrickett hwcn org>]

On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 03:35, Mario Vukelic wrote:
On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 05:20, Jason Trickett wrote:
> Hi.
> I installed gdm thru gnome-fifth-toe (garnome-0.13.1) and I wish to use
> this newer version as my login manager. Could someone point me in the
> right direction? Thanks.

> Prolly depends on distro. On debian I installed gdm into the garnome
> install directory (as root, but I don't know if that is needed [I
> figrured so because of pam interaction]. Everything else I installed as
> user). Then I edited /etc/init.d/gdm to point to the new gdm. Also,
> either set HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER=false in /etc/init.d/gdm or
> leave it as true, but change /etc/X11/default-display-manager to point
> to new gdm. (There may be a Debian Way to set this, but I couldn't find
> it and just used vi)
Thanks for answering! I looked in /etc/init.d/ and there was not a file named gdm to edit on my system (mandrake 8.1). Anyhoo, in /etc/X11/prefdm i noticed some code that looks like this:

preferred=
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then
	. /etc/sysconfig/desktop >/dev/null 2>&1
	[ -n "$DISPLAYMANAGER" ] && DESKTOP=$DISPLAYMANAGER
	if [ "$DESKTOP" = "GNOME" -o "$DESKTOP" = "Gnome" ]; then
		preferred=gdm
	elif [ "$DESKTOP" = "KDE" -o "$DESKTOP" = "KDE1" -o "$DESKTOP" = "KDE2" ]; then
		preferred=/usr/bin/kdm
	elif [ "$DESKTOP" = "AnotherLevel" ] ; then
                preferred=/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm
	fi
fi

Could I edit 'preferred-gdm' to 'preferred=/home/jason/garnome/gdm' ?

- Jason

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