In a message dated 1/10/99 10:47:00 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > 1) Renamed /user/X11/bin/xdm to old.xdm and created a link from > > /usr/local/kde/bin/kdm to xdm in it's place. According to the KDE docs, > this > > is no problem - and in practice, it works like a champ. > > Remember that if you ever upgrade your xbase package (planning on moving > to slink when it comes out?) that it will blow away kdm to replace it with > the new version of xdm. > That is a good point - but is there another way to do it? I could set up a start-kdm line in config, but wouldn't that also get overridden? > > 3) Edited /etc/X11/window-managers and put /usr/local/kde/bin/kwm as the > first > > line. This brings up kwm when X starts the window managers. > > > > 5) Edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup_0 and right before the 'exit 0' statement, > added > > all of the lines from the startkde script, except the 'kwm' line (since > kwm > > was already started). These lines start all the KDE applications after > the > > user logs in. > > I don't think you should do it this way. Assume for a moment that you > machine will have more than one user, and possibly one of your users wants > to run another window environment like Window Maker or Afterstep. The kde > clients would still get run. Plus (this is a biggie) you'll notice, if > you read the Xstartup and Xstartup_0 files, that THEY ARE RUN AS ROOT! Do > you really want all your users to be running kfm with root privilages? > That would be BAD. > > I see your're point... but.. * If I don't run the programs from Xstartup, where do I run them from? This was the only way I could find to run programs after xdm logs in. I could put them in xsession I suppose, but wouldn't that cause the same problem? * I first thought that kfm was the file manager, but it isn't - when I didn't run it I couldn't run any applications, and I didn't get any icons on the desktop (trash and such). * My system is a single user system, so I really am not worried about multi- user options - but other's might be, and it is a good point to not run things as root unless you need to. I'm certianly open to other options, but I've spent a good week trying to get this to work and this was the only way I found to do it. Are there options I didn't find that would work better?
