Re: Display manager

2004-05-01 Thread Adam Aube
Michael Satterwhite wrote: > I tried changing my default display manager to KDM, but it doesn't start. > I need to switch back to xdm. > > Is there an easy way to do this? dpkg-reconfigure xdm Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Display manager

2004-04-22 Thread Alexander Nordström
On Saturday, 17 Apr 2004 18:18, Tom wrote: > I'm sorry, but I'm no longer sure: where does my display manager (i.e. > kdm, at the moment) collect its list of available window managers? I > really tried to come up with an answer myself, but the configuration > files that just may have something to

Re: Display manager

2004-04-17 Thread W Paul Mills
Tom wrote: > Hey, > > I'm sorry, but I'm no longer sure: where does my display manager (i.e. > kdm, at the moment) collect its list of available window managers? I > really tried to come up with an answer myself, but the configuration > files that just may have something to do with this topic are

Re: Display manager

2004-04-17 Thread Adam Funk
On Saturday 17 April 2004 15:20, Tom wrote: > I don't have a directory called /etc/dm... In that case take everything I said with a grain of salt, as I'm not familiar with KDM. It's just that your problem sounds a lot like the one I had with GDM recently. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Display manager

2004-04-17 Thread Tom
* [Saturday 17 April 2004 15:29] Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >I'm sorry, but I'm no longer sure: where does my display manager > > (i.e. kdm, at the moment) collect its list of available window > > managers? > My guess would be that it's display manager dependent. I believe the > location

Re: Display manager

2004-04-17 Thread Tom
* [Saturday 17 April 2004 15:08] Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm sorry, but I'm no longer sure: where does my display manager > > (i.e. kdm, at the moment) collect its list of available window > > managers? I really tried to come up with an answer myself, but the > > configuration files tha

Re: Display manager

2004-04-17 Thread Kent West
Tom wrote: Hey, I'm sorry, but I'm no longer sure: where does my display manager (i.e. kdm, at the moment) collect its list of available window managers? I really tried to come up with an answer myself, but the configuration files that just may have something to do with this topic are happily

Re: Display manager

2004-04-17 Thread Adam Funk
On Saturday 17 April 2004 11:20, Tom wrote: > I'm sorry, but I'm no longer sure: where does my display manager (i.e. > kdm, at the moment) collect its list of available window managers? I > really tried to come up with an answer myself, but the configuration > files that just may have something to

Re: display manager fails to start at login

2003-05-29 Thread Christoph Groth
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>I've installed the driver on my woody system and X works including >>hardware 3d acceleration. However there is one problem: When my >>system starts kdm (gdm, xdm), the xserver crashes with signal 11, >> >> (...) >> >>Now when I log in as root and run >> >>

Re: display manager fails to start at login

2003-05-29 Thread Kent West
Christoph Groth wrote: Hello fellow Debian users, A week ago I got a used Hercules 3d Prophet 4500 graphics board from a friend as a replacement for my good old Matrox Millennium II. Unfortunately, only closed-source drivers are available for the new card. (I wouldn't buy such a card, but this i

Re: display manager related

2001-10-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:44:01AM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Is there any technical advantage in using a display manager > to start X window system apart from using "xinit" related > stuff from the command line ? Not particularly IMO: http://kmself.home.netcom

Re: display manager related

2001-09-29 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 14:40, dman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:44:01AM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote: > | > | Is there any technical advantage in using a display manager > | to start X window system apart from using "xinit" related > | stuff from the command line ? > > You get a nice pre

Re: display manager related

2001-09-29 Thread dman
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:44:01AM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote: | | Is there any technical advantage in using a display manager | to start X window system apart from using "xinit" related | stuff from the command line ? You get a nice pretty screen to login to. You can use XDMCP. You can al