Re: Changing X login back

[Bob Waskosky <bobski netnet net>]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 12:22:29AM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 10:55:57AM -0500, Bob Waskosky wrote:
> > Hi.
> > Can somebody tell me how to change my graphical login back to what it was before I installed 1.2?
> 
> Presumably you were still using gdm, so just have a look in 
> /etc/gdm. The file which determines the look of gdm is gdm.conf.
> If you're running Debian, the old one will be "gdm.conf.dpkg-old", 
> RedHat "gdm.conf.rpmsave" and others probably something similar. 
> 
> Try copying the new gdm.conf to gdm.conf.new, and then copying the 
> backed up one to gdm.conf. That ought to work, although it may need 
> some fiddling.
> 
> The only difference that won't be fixed is that the Helix Gnome 
> distribution (at least the debs) is compiled for XFree86, and expects 
> the XFree extensions. I've noticed that it doesn't work on other X 
> servers over a network. (Filed a bug report, but thought I'd mention it.)
> 
> -- 
> Grahame Bowland                    gbowland@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
>                                      http://gbowland.ucc.asn.au
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I was previously using kdm on my mandrake 7.0 system. When I install 1.2 I used gdm but would like to know how to switch back to kdm login manager.
Thanks
Bob
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