[95743] in RedHat Linux List
[Fwd: More on setting up kdm]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick O'Neil)
Tue Oct 20 23:26:41 1998
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 03:21:58 +0000
From: "Patrick O'Neil" <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu>
To: redhat <redhat-list@redhat.com>,
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Patrick O'Neil wrote:
>
> Alan N wrote:
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Patrick O'Neil <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu>
> > To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
> > Date: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 2:34 PM
> > Subject: Re: More on setting up kdm
> >
>
> > I set up KDE and I'm really new, so obviously I had to have some help.
> > Rather than typing it, goto my web site and follow the Linux Newbie page
> > or whatever I called it. Here's how I set up KDE and worked fine.
>
> I have had no problem getting kde to run. My problem is in getting kdm,
> or xdm for that matter, to run (properly). I can get xdm to start but
> it appears that no matter what I do with all the myriad X-files
> (Xsessions,
> Xsetup_0, Xclients, xinitrc, etc) the ONLY wm that will start is
> fvwm2.
>
> I can also get kdm to startup and accept logins but even though I have
> set it up (supposedly) to give the option of starting kde,
> enlightenment,
> icewm, fvwm2, and old failsafe, the ONLY wm that actually starts is
> fvwm2 -even though I select kde or enlightenment or icewm. I can also
> get failsafe (a terminal window) to start but that's it...fvwm2 and
> an xterm.
>
> The man pages for xdm are useless. The man pages presuppose that one
> already knows much of what one is supposed to do for ANY task carried
> in a man page. There are NO howtos for xdm...NONE. The kde-supplied
> instructions for xdm presuppose that xdm is already configured and
> working...and does not allow for multiple window managers. In any case,
> following the kde-supplied instructions for kdm TO THE LETTER failed
> to get kdm to work properly. Sure it would start up and allow for
> logins but, again, the ONLY wm that would start was fvwm2. Not
> kde!
>
> Some CRITICAL information is missing in the VERY little information
> and instructions that do exist for setting up xdm. If one cannot
> get xdm working properly, then one cannot get kdm to work properly
> either.
>
> I need to know how to configure xdm to start kde FIRST. Then I
> need to know how to get kdm to work instead of xdm. THEN I need
> to know precisely how one adds window managers to the options so
> that I am not just stuck with kde alone.
>
> I looked all the example files for some clue as to how to add
> multiple wms:
>
> /usr/doc/xsession-1.1/examples/Xdefaults
> /usr/doc/xsession-1.1/examples/xinitrc
> /usr/doc/xsession-1.1/examples/xinitrc.safe
> /usr/doc/xsession-1.1/examples/xinitrc.short
> /usr/doc/xsession-1.1/examples/xsession
> /usr/doc/xsession-1.1/examples/xsession.safe
> /usr/doc/xsession-1.1/examples/xsession.short
>
> Total garbage. Some of these are SO simplistic in form that
> they are information content-free, particularly in comparison
> to the rather complex xinitrc of xsession system default files
> with their "if then do else" statements. None of which
> clearly indicates how one can have it so that one can CHOOSE
> at login what window manager to start. These assume either
> a single wm OR go thru a series of possible wms in if-then-else
> statements until one actually is found and starts.
>
>
> Please...SOMEONE...there is a critical missing item in the
> information both provided by kind souls in the list AND
> in the documentation - something that prevents me having
> a choice of different wms at login via xdm or kdm.
>
> Obviously, kdm passes information to SOMETHING, a script file,
> that is supposed to "read" what wm has been selected for
> startup. What script file? What is the form of the variable
> being passed and what is the syntax in the receiving/reading
> script that can "see" that enlightenment or kde or icewm has
> been selected for startup? What are the conditional statements
> in this script file (if-<some variable selected in kdm>-then?)
> that I need to add or modify to do this?
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------
> "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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"If a man hasn't discovered something that
he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
--Martin Luther King, Jr
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Padraig UiNiall
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