RE: More on setting up kdm

["Heltzel, Dennis" <DHeltzel IKON com>]

I think you need to make the following changes:

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Patrick O'Neil [SMTP:patrick howard genetics utah edu]
> Sent:	Saturday, October 17, 1998 9:09 PM
> To:	redhat
> Subject:	More on setting up kdm
> 
> Thanks to the aid with setting up xdm/kdm... however
> it ain't working quite yet.  I get the kdm screen with 
> usernames and have a list of wms to select but no matter
> which one I select, I get fvwm2.  No enlightenment, no
> kde, no icewm.  What's wrong?  The following is pertinent
> information.  
> 
> I had .xinitrc in my home directory which had only 
> startkde in it - and I did a mv from .xinitrc to xinitrc.  
> Then I edited Xsessions and inittab and kdmrc thus:
> 
> ----------------------------------
> In /etc/X11/xdm/Xsessions is:
> 
> #!/bin/bash -login
> # $XConsortium: Xsession /main/10 1995/12/18 18:21:28 gildea $
> 
> case $# in
> 1)
	# case $1 in                    (Move this below) 
> failsafe)
> exec xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0
> ;;
	esac
	case $1 in
> KDE)
> exec /opt/kde/bin/startkde
> ;;
> enligtenment)
> exec /usr/bin/enlightenment 
> ;;
> icewm)
> exec /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm 
> ;;
	# esac                               (move this up) 
> esac
> # redirect errors to a file in user's home directory if we can
> for errfile in "$HOME/.xsession-errors" "${TMPDIR-/tmp}/xses-$USER"
> "/tmp/xses-$USER"
> do
> 	if ( cp /dev/null "$errfile" 2> /dev/null )
> 	then
> 		chmod 600 "$errfile"
> 		exec > "$errfile" 2>&1
> 		break
> 	fi
> done
> 
> # clean up after xbanner
> freetemp
> startup=HOME/.xinitrc
> #startup=$HOME/.xsession
> resources=$HOME/.Xresources
> 
> if [ -x "$startup" ]; then
> 	exec "$startup"
> elif [ -x "$HOME/.Xclients" ]; then
> 	exec "$HOME/.Xclients"
> elif [ -x /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ]; then
> 	exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
> else
> 	if [ -f "$resources" ]; then
> 		xrdb -load "$resources"
> 	fi
> 	exec xsm
> fi
> 
> ---------------------------
> In /etc/inittab is:
> 
> ....stuff skipped
> 
> #id:3:initdefault:
> id:5:initdefault:
> 
> and then...
> 
> # Run xdm in runlevel 5
> #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm -nodaemon
> x:5:respawn:/opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon
> 
> --------------------------
> And in /opt/kde/share/config/kdmrc I have:
> 
> ...stuff skipped...
> 
> SortUsers=true
> NoUsers=sync;halt;reboot;shutdown;mail;
> GreetString=K Desktop Environment [HOSTNAME]
> UserView=true
> ShutdownButton=ConsoleOnly
> FailFont=helvetica,12,5,iso-8859-1,75,0
> Users=root;patrick;peggy;anna;
> GreetFont=charter,24,5,iso-8859-1,50,0
> StdFont=Helvetica,12,5,iso-8859-1,50,0
> SessionTypes=enlightenment;icewm;kde;fvwm;failsafe;
> GUIStyle=Motif 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> -------------------------------------------
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> he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
> 	          --Martin Luther King, Jr
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> Padraig UiNiall
> 
> 
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