From Honsinger@whs.wsd.wednet.edu Thu Nov 9 16:35:17 2000 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA130230 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 16:35:14 -0800 Received: from whs.wsd.wednet.edu (whs.wsd.wednet.edu [168.99.104.151]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA00805 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 16:35:13 -0800 Received: from mandrake.internet.wsd.wednet.edu (168.99.104.147) by whs.wsd.wednet.edu with SMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 1.3.1); Thu, 9 Nov 2000 16:35:11 -0800 From: Benjamin Honsinger To: linux@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Quick Question (x windows) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 16:32:03 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00110916344500.01411@mandrake.internet.wsd.wednet.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I need to look at this more, but just as a note; the file /etc/X11/prefdm on my computer running Mandrake 7.1 (i'm pretty sure) is not a symbolic link, but rather an executable script. I have looked at the script, but I can't figure out how to change it to make it use kdm by default. Perhaps someone else might be able to comment on that... Thanks! - Ben On Tue, 07 Nov 2000, you wrote: > I don't think you'd want to do that, as the ".xsession" file is normally > read AFTER you've logged in via an X session manager (like kdm). Instead, > you could edit /etc/inittab (RedHat) to make sure that you boot into > runlevel 5, and then check to make sure that the following line exists > like: > > x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon > > Then go make sure that /etc/X11/prefdm is a symlink to "kdm": > > % ls -l /etc/X11/prefdm > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Sep 8 1999 /etc/X11/prefdm -> > /usr/bin/kdm > > --------------------------- > -=<(| mike@boobaz.net |)>=- > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 at 12:31, andrew shinn wrote: > > | > | > |On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Benjamin Honsinger wrote: > | > |> I know I could look this up somewhere, but I don't have time... > |> How do I start a certain x client. X windows works on a computer i'm using, > |> but it runs a crappy window manager. I know kde is installed, how do I get x to > |> start with kde? I think it's kdm or something, but how do I start it? > |> Thanks! > | > |I'm not at home right now to double check this, but I think just putting a > |line like > | > |/usr/sbin/kdm > | > |in your .xsession file does the trick (at least that's how I have > |enlightenment start up when I startx). > | > |--Drew > | .