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RE: Setting up xdm/kdm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Heltzel, Dennis)
Mon Oct 19 07:23:10 1998
From: "Heltzel, Dennis" <DHeltzel@IKON.com>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 07:22:58 -0400
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Tyr these URLs:
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/May1998/article14.html
http://torment.ntr.net/xdm/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick O'Neil [SMTP:patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu]
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 1998 9:00 PM
> To: redhat
> Subject: Setting up xdm/kdm
>
> I have been trying to discover how to setup xdm (so that
> I can then use kdm) but am lost. I simply don't get the
> man page...they are all cryptic or seem to assume more
> knowledge to start with than I presently have. I have
> also failed to find any HOWTO or mini-howto on exactly
> what it takes to setup xdm.
>
> I have RH 5.1, kernel 2.0.35 installed and the following
> window managers:
>
> kdm (my present primary wm)
> Enlightenment (which I would like to play with a lot
> more-I like it)
> Icewm (haven't tried it yet)
> Window Maker (haven't tried it yet)
> fvwm2/AnotherLevel
>
> Right now, I only have Enlightenment running when I
> login as root or startx as su. I would like to setup
> kdm (and need to get there by first getting xdm running)
> so I can login and select whichever wm I want to play with.
>
> I do not have any .xsessions, nor any other file EXCEPT
> xinitrc which has the original fvwm2, fvwm, etc, entries
> commented out and replaced with the simple "startkde".
>
> What do I need to do to get xdm setup and THEN kdm? I
> have even been reading in my _RedHat Linux Unleashed_ but
> it only has a couple short paragraphs about xdm...and it
> certainly isn't enough.
>
> I searched the Linux Documentation Project page for anything
> regarding xdm...nothing. Not. A. Thing.
>
> Please help me out here.
>
> Thanks.
>
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>
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