Re: Saving (and enforcing) configuration changes ..

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

Jeff,

Thanks for the tip.  Seems that line was set to KDE.  Changed that to
WindowMaker .. all is right in the universe again .. for the moment.

One thing I did notice in fiddling with this is that the files in the
/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions directory always seem to be rewritten or modified at
reboot .. they appear to always have a time/date stamp close to the time of
reboot .. does that make sense?

Thanks again,

Dan

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 09:33:52 -0500, jeff lightweb net said:

> Have you looked at /etc/sysconfig/desktop ?
>  
>  it contains one line that tells /etc/X11/prefdm which window manager
>  you're
>  using so that it knows which daemon to run (gdm, kdm, xdm). Another script
>  may call this file as well...
>  
>  Try changing it or something.. :)
>  
>  Jeff
>  
>  To List:
>  
>  BTW, my Tektronix works with gdm now... I'll be damned but I commented out
>  the browser function (which I have done before, mind you) and it freaking
>  works.... Hmmph... :)
>  
>  
>  -X-----X-----X-----X---
>  : 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.
>  : 
>  : --
>  : Martin K. Petersen   Principal Linux Consultant,
>  : Linuxcare, Inc.
>  : http://mkp.net/	  SGI XFS, Linux/PA-RISC, GNOME
>  : 
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