[CentOS] KDE login screen configuration problems

[Scot P. Floess]

I'm at a loss tbh...  That's definitely what I do for sure...

Curious - did you reboot?

On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Mike Watson wrote:

> It take it back. It worked once. It's now reverted to GDM although
> /etc/sysconfig/desktop still reads DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM. However, "ps aux
> | egrep 'kdm|gdm'" shows:
>
> bash-4.1$ ps aux | egrep 'kdm|gdm'
> root      3408  0.0  0.0 121484  2192 ?        Ss   14:19   0:00
> /usr/sbi/gdm-binary -nodaemon
> root      3533  0.0  0.0 152284  3376 ?        S    14:19   0:00
> /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave --display-id
> /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Display1
> root      3535 14.9  1.3 176720 81056 tty7     Ss+  14:19   1:43
> /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -verbose -audit 4 -auth
> /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-jLtDOj/database -nolisten tcp
> gdm       3622  0.0  0.0  20032   668 ?        S    14:19   0:00
> /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session
> root      3807  0.0  0.0 177028  3172 ?        S    14:19   0:00 pam:
> gdm-password
>
> mw
>
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> On 12/07/2012 11:00 AM, Mike Watson wrote:
>> Thank you. That worked.
>>
>> mw
>>
>> --
>>
>> "Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee."
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>>
>> On 12/06/2012 02:52 PM, Mike Watson wrote:
>>> Ahh. OK, I'll make the change and post the results.  :-[
>>>
>>> mw
>>>
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>>>
>>> "Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee."
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>>> On 12/06/2012 01:04 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote:
>>>> Sorry, I may have not been clear...
>>>>
>>>> You want this in /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Note no preceeding dollar sign :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> To better understand, take a peak at /etc/X11/prefdm
>>>>
>>>> In it, its doing this:
>>>>
>>>> . /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>>>>
>>>> You'll see it doing some checks like:
>>>>
>>>> elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then
>>>>          preferred=/usr/bin/kdm
>>>>
>>>> Which will be used in starting kdm :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Mike Watson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sorry to be so slow in responding. I've done what you suggested. I created
>>>>> /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>>>>> and entered "$DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM". I rebooted but there was no change. GDM is still being used.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any other suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>> mw
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ========================
>>>>> Just create the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop and put in it:
>>>>>
>>>>> DESKTOP=KDM
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe it's DESKTOP - you can dbl check /etc/X11/prefdm
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my phoneMike Watson <mikew at crucis.net <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote:The last reply to this subject said to modify /etc/sysconfig/desktop to
>>>>> change GDM to KDM. This would then enable the KDE login screen instead
>>>>> of the default Gnome.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, when I checked my CentOS 6.3 system, there was no such file, no
>>>>> /etc/sysconfig/desktop. I've not been able to find any method to enable
>>>>> KDE login in 6.3. The method mentioned in the earlier reply was for
>>>>> CentOS 5, not 6.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any further suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>> mw
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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