[95661] in RedHat Linux List
RE: More on setting up kdm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Heltzel, Dennis)
Tue Oct 20 06:58:13 1998
From: "Heltzel, Dennis" <DHeltzel@IKON.com>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 06:58:23 -0400
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I think you need to make the following changes:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick O'Neil [SMTP:patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, October 17, 1998 9:09 PM
> To: redhat
> Subject: More on setting up kdm
>
> Thanks to the aid with setting up xdm/kdm... however
> it ain't working quite yet. I get the kdm screen with
> usernames and have a list of wms to select but no matter
> which one I select, I get fvwm2. No enlightenment, no
> kde, no icewm. What's wrong? The following is pertinent
> information.
>
> I had .xinitrc in my home directory which had only
> startkde in it - and I did a mv from .xinitrc to xinitrc.
> Then I edited Xsessions and inittab and kdmrc thus:
>
> ----------------------------------
> In /etc/X11/xdm/Xsessions is:
>
> #!/bin/bash -login
> # $XConsortium: Xsession /main/10 1995/12/18 18:21:28 gildea $
>
> case $# in
> 1)
# case $1 in (Move this below)
> failsafe)
> exec xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0
> ;;
esac
case $1 in
> KDE)
> exec /opt/kde/bin/startkde
> ;;
> enligtenment)
> exec /usr/bin/enlightenment
> ;;
> icewm)
> exec /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm
> ;;
# esac (move this up)
> esac
> # redirect errors to a file in user's home directory if we can
> for errfile in "$HOME/.xsession-errors" "${TMPDIR-/tmp}/xses-$USER"
> "/tmp/xses-$USER"
> do
> if ( cp /dev/null "$errfile" 2> /dev/null )
> then
> chmod 600 "$errfile"
> exec > "$errfile" 2>&1
> break
> fi
> done
>
> # clean up after xbanner
> freetemp
> startup=HOME/.xinitrc
> #startup=$HOME/.xsession
> resources=$HOME/.Xresources
>
> if [ -x "$startup" ]; then
> exec "$startup"
> elif [ -x "$HOME/.Xclients" ]; then
> exec "$HOME/.Xclients"
> elif [ -x /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ]; then
> exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
> else
> if [ -f "$resources" ]; then
> xrdb -load "$resources"
> fi
> exec xsm
> fi
>
> ---------------------------
> In /etc/inittab is:
>
> ....stuff skipped
>
> #id:3:initdefault:
> id:5:initdefault:
>
> and then...
>
> # Run xdm in runlevel 5
> #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm -nodaemon
> x:5:respawn:/opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon
>
> --------------------------
> And in /opt/kde/share/config/kdmrc I have:
>
> ...stuff skipped...
>
> SortUsers=true
> NoUsers=sync;halt;reboot;shutdown;mail;
> GreetString=K Desktop Environment [HOSTNAME]
> UserView=true
> ShutdownButton=ConsoleOnly
> FailFont=helvetica,12,5,iso-8859-1,75,0
> Users=root;patrick;peggy;anna;
> GreetFont=charter,24,5,iso-8859-1,50,0
> StdFont=Helvetica,12,5,iso-8859-1,50,0
> SessionTypes=enlightenment;icewm;kde;fvwm;failsafe;
> GUIStyle=Motif
>
>
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------
> "If a man hasn't discovered something that
> he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
> --Martin Luther King, Jr
> -------------------------------------------
>
> Padraig UiNiall
>
>
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