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Faust:
Small question but in Debian what is the command to reconfigure my display manager/text file to edit?
I want to set KDM to be my default display manager.

Also with XDM how do I make it open up blackbox when I log in instead of enlightenment?

JH:
The easiest way is to use wdm that lets you select desired window manager on logging in (By default the last manager is used). Think that gdm and kdm let the same but I'm not sure.

Calum:
kdm does do that, and so does gdm although i have seen versions of gdm that do not.

have a look in /etc/inittab * and see if there's already a line in there for kdm that you can uncomment, or perhaps you need to comment out the gdm lines if they preced the kdm ones? what display manager are you using now?

* or it might be a child script that inittab calls, i can't recall...

[ May 12, 2003: Message edited by: Calum: hopelessly outnumbered ]

Faust:
Muah ha ha ha.  I bought a book called "Linux Complete" which was basically just a print out of a lot of man pages and how tos.  After slowly reading through the X windows section again I found it - theres a hidden file called .xinitrc in your home dir which holds the line "exec /usr/bin/[windowmanager]."  I just changed it from enlightenment to blackbox.  Still cant find how to change from XDM to KDM but I am slowly trying /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure * until I find the right * for display managers... I should get there soonish.  
Thanks for the help everyone!

Pantso:

quote:Originally posted by Faust:
Muah ha ha ha.  I bought a book called "Linux Complete" which was basically just a print out of a lot of man pages and how tos.
--- End quote ---


We have the same book and it's great if I may add. Anyway, If I happened to see this thread earlier, perhaps I would have posted the exact same solution.   ;)   Good buy Faust.  

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