RE: Saving (and enforcing) configuration changes ..

["Daniel S. Savage" <savage multiverse com>]

The system of interest:

Dell Latitude Cpx PIII-500, 256MB RAM
Running Mandrake 7.0
WindowMaker 0.61.1

Hmm.. well there's nobody fiddling with the link (other than
me) since I'm the only one who has ever used this machine ..
sysadmin, root, user, judge, jury, and executioner .. etc.

Is it possible that Mandrake (or Red Hat) has a script
sitting somewhere to set this link back to kde without my
knowing it?  When I originally installed the machine, it was
set to init run level 3, so GDM was not being used until
recently, but conceivably, Mandrake may be deciding my
preferences for me .. great .. just like M$ .. that's why I
use this stuff ..



>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel S Savage <savage multiverse com>
writes:

Daniel> In /etc/X11/gdm, there's a symlink called Default,
which upon
Daniel> installation of GDM points to kde as the default wm
to be
Daniel> used.  As root, I have changed thaat symlink to
point to my
Daniel> desired wm (WindowMaker).  When I simply restart GDM
and login
Daniel> .. the change holds.  However, if the system is
restarted, the
Daniel> symlink reverts to pointing at kde.  Is GDM running
a script
Daniel> at shutdown that resets the defaults against some
config file

Nope.  It must be somebody else fiddling with the link.

What distribution are you running?

Whoever wrote the script that changes the Default link will
be the
first against the wall when the revolution comes.


Daniel> I suppose a better solution to this problem, other
than
Daniel> setting the default to my wm of choice, is to
configure GDM to
Daniel> use the .xsession or .xinitrc files in all users
home
Daniel> directories.  In that case, then, users could
configure the
Daniel> way they want their system, and GDM would check that
file,
Daniel> automatically point them there.  I have tried this
(similar to
Daniel> how it would have been done in XDM) but no luck.

Ideally, the users select their preferred desktop in
gdmlogin's menu
and it is saved for future sessions.  Red Hat disables this
behavior,
however.

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