prefdm really honored??

[Christoph Wickert]

When X starts up, the script /etc/X11/prefdm is executed.
It goes like
> ...
> preferred=
> if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then
>         . /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>         if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GNOME ]; then
>                 preferred=gdm
>         elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then
>                 preferred=kdm
>         elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then
>                 preferred=xdm
>         fi
> fi
> ...

so I changed /etc/sysconfig/desktop to "KDE" (what I think is stupid, for I don't want to run KDE by default), 
but still gdm comes up instead of kdm. Is this a bug or did I miss something? IFIAK this happened in RH8/9, too, 
my only solution was to remove gdm.

Christoph

[Chris Ricker]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> so I changed /etc/sysconfig/desktop to "KDE" (what I think is stupid, for I don't want to run KDE by default), 
> but still gdm comes up instead of kdm. Is this a bug or did I miss something? IFIAK this happened in RH8/9, too, 
> my only solution was to remove gdm.

Make sure you changed it by doing

DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"

not

DESKTOP="KDE"

The latter would give you gdm, then KDE by default. The former gives you 
kdm, then GNOME by default.

later,
chris

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Do, 2003-10-02 um 02.00 schrieb Chris Ricker:
> Make sure you changed it by doing
>
> DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
>
> not
>
> DESKTOP="KDE"
>
> The latter would give you gdm, then KDE by default. The former gives you 
> kdm, then GNOME by default.
>
> later,
> chris

d'oh! Thx

Chris (too)