[95886] in RedHat Linux List
Re: sort of have kdm working
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jose M. Sanchez)
Thu Oct 22 00:01:11 1998
Reply-To: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
From: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Cc: <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 00:11:54 -0400
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
I had similiar problems with WDM (which I am using instead...) all the
scripts were correct, but some of the wm's would not start.
It turned out that the scripts need EXPLICIT paths to the applications (and
NO links!)... the original scripts relied on shell path statements to find
the executables...
Apparent the wdm/xdm/kdm display managers do not get the full paths
exported... and for some reason soft (symbolic) links do not work either...
grep the startup lines in your /etc/X11/kdm directory and change the
invokations of the window managers... this should solve your problems...
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick O'Neil <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu>
To: redhat <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 10:58 PM
Subject: sort of have kdm working
>After screwing around for a long evening, I have gotten
>kdm to run and start a couple of different wms. I can
>start kde with no problem (as a user) but if I select
>enlightenment, it will not start. I get kicked back
>to kdm. I can start enlightenment, sortof, if I login
>and select "failsafe", a terminal window, and enter
>"enlightenment". It will then start but without sound.
>If I start enlightenment as root in this way, I DO
>get sound.
>
>If I select fvwm (to start fvwm2), at first it doesn't
>appear to have worked because the kdm background (Linux
>banner with the penguin wearing a redhat) doesn't go away.
>If I hit one of the mouse buttons, however, an fvwm2 menu
>box appears and I am able to run different apps. If one of
>these app windows happens to fall over the penguin or linux
>logo and I then subsequently close or move that window, the
>part of the penguin or logo that was covered vanishes, leaving
>just the default green background.
>
>Any idears?
>
>What finally seems to have gotten things THIS far is this
>bit of editing of my .xinitrc file (before I just had
>"startkde":
>
>---------------------------------------
>
>ifelse(WM_NAME, kde, [
>exec startkde
>])
>ifelse(WM_NAME, enlightenment, [
>exec /usr/enlightenment/bin/enlightenment
>])
>ifelse(WM_NAME, icewm, [
>exec /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm
>])
>ifelse(WM_NAME, fvwm, [
>exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2
>])
>ifelse(WM_NAME, failsafe, [
>exec xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51
>])
>---------------------------------------
>
>Do I need something more than this somewhere to make
>all wms work perfectly?
>
>
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>-------------------------------------------
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>he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
> --Martin Luther King, Jr
>-------------------------------------------
>
>Padraig UiNiall
>
>
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