On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:21:02PM +0100, Rody wrote: > Op vrijdag 16 maart 2007 23:04, schreef Andrew Bogecho: > > >> After testing the beta of CentOS 5, i was a little surprised to notice > > >> that the display manager part of the prefdm file in /etc/X11 was exactly > > >> like in CentOS 4 / RHEL4 and previous versions including RH9. > > >> 17 . /etc/sysconfig/desktop > > >> Line 17 is no functional command i know of, therefor the choice of > > > I believe that in bash and sh placing . (dot) followed by a space and > If tried (tested) that but if you have DESKTOP="KDE" in /etc/sysconfig/desktop > and the original prefdm, than the loginscreen will be gdm and not kdm. You have to do it exactly correct. "./xxx" won't work; "/xxx" won't work, it has to be exactly " . /xxx" > I wouldn't be surprised if the feature you mention existed, but it doesn't > work like that on the redhat-pc's i've seen... It's existed on Unix for many decades. Here's an example from a 4.4 system showing how it works. bash-3.00$ cat x VAR=changed bash-3.00$ echo $VAR bash-3.00$ VAR=original bash-3.00$ echo $VAR original bash-3.00$ . x bash-3.00$ echo $VAR changed bash-3.00$ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.4 (Final) bash-3.00$ So basically in the original, /etc/sysconfig/desktop consists of a line like DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE and the system works as expected. -- rgds Stephen