Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Never mind. I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off > XDM had failed. I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole > system. And reasonable menus for rebooting Just Came Up. > > ++ kevin > > On 4/28/07, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I thought I had it configured for KDM, things are not going well. >> >> rc-update says xdm is in default (and >> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Activate_Graphical_login >> says this is a good thing. >> >> /etc/conf.d/xdm says >> DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" >> and /etc/rc.conf just has a comment to look in that place, plus >> XSESSION="kde-3.5" >> >> When I'm logged out, however, I've got that ugly login thing that >> takes only a username and password. There's no way to reboot without >> somehow logging in as root, either on a PTY or through XDM. >> >> I do have kdm-3.5.5-r1 emerged. >> >> Logging does take me to KDE, but the menus in KDE also provide no way >> to reboot. Going to root via su is not wonderful either, as execution >> /sbin/shutdown -r does really strange things until it finally gets >> clobbered >> >> I'd like to clean this up: I'd like kdm, and I'd like a menu entry >> for rebooting. >> >> Advice? >> >> -- >> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD >> > >
I was wondering because I have mine set up the same way. If you want to reset X the easy way, usually a ctrl alt backspace will work. Naturally the ctrl alt del button should do a reboot. Glad you got it going. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
