Re: choose the default display manager

2005-05-06 Thread Rene Tapia
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you, that definitively solved the problem. > > I'm getting a little confused about these managers. > What is the > difference between display, session, login and > window manager and > what are examples for them? I'm asking just for > curiosity... I don't k

Re: choose the default display manager

2005-05-06 Thread hjvm
Thank you, that definitively solved the problem. I'm getting a little confused about these managers. What is the difference between display, session, login and window manager and what are examples for them? I'm asking just for curiosity... Regards, Hans-Joerg v. Mettenheim On 4 May 2005 at 12

Re: choose the default display manager

2005-05-04 Thread Rene Tapia
> > > So how could I set which window manager is > started by the DM? I missed the previous parte of the thread, so I am not sure if what you want is to change the login manager or the session manager. To change the default session manager I used: update-alternatives --set x-session-manager /usr/

Re: choose the default display manager

2005-05-04 Thread hjvm
I can't figure that out! I summarize the previous state: 1.) console says: kdm and wdm are started (kdm because of the "false" value in the conf-script, wdm because it's the default-display- manager) 2.) kdm takes over and runs kde. According to pstree and ps no wdm is running. What I did: 1.)

Re: choose the default display manager

2005-05-03 Thread Jon Dowland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But when I set the DM to kdm in /etc/X11/default-display-manager I get a totally different *window* manager, i. e. I get XFCE4 instead of KDE. That's even stranger as I thought that kdm would start kde. But it obviously doesn't. In this case at least only kdm is started

Re: choose the default display manager

2005-05-03 Thread hjvm
OK, thank you, your suggestions put some light on the problem. But I still have questions... On 3 May 2005 at 11:48, Jon Dowland wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Not starting GNOME Display Manager (gdm); it is not the default > >display manager. > >Starting K Display Manager: kdm. >

Re: choose the default display manager

2005-05-03 Thread Jon Dowland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not starting GNOME Display Manager (gdm); it is not the default display manager. Starting K Display Manager: kdm. Starting WINGs display manager: wdm. Not starting X display manager (xdm); it is not the default display manager. Hmm weird. each of the display managers a