[ale] Changing DM in Redhat 7.2 - aaargh!!

[Charles Marcus]

Thanks for the help, John...

> From: John Wells [mailto:jbwellsiv at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 7:43 AM
> To: Charles Marcus; 'Ale (E-mail)'
> Subject: RE: [ale] Changing DM in Redhat 7.2 - aaargh!!
> 
> Charles,
> 
> Are you sure you have kdm installed?  If so, what's
> the path?

Yes - /usr/bin

> Open /etc/X11/prefdm and insert the line "set -x" at
> the top.

OK, did so - although I added it *after* the path - should it have been before?

> Then run the file and send the output to the
> list.  It might be a bit more indicative of what's
> going on...
> 
> John

Here's the output...

+ . /etc/profile.d/lang.sh
++ sourced=0
++ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/i18n ']'
++ . /etc/sysconfig/i18n
+++ LANG=en_US
+++ SUPPORTED=en_US:en
+++ SYSFONT=lat0-sun16
+++ SYSFONTACM=iso01
++ sourced=1
++ '[' -f /root/.i18n ']'
++ '[' -n '' ']'
++ '[' 1 = 1 ']'
++ '[' -n en_US ']'
++ export LANG
++ '[' -n '' ']'
++ unset LC_CTYPE
++ '[' -n '' ']'
++ unset LC_COLLATE
++ '[' -n '' ']'
++ unset LC_MESSAGES
++ '[' -n '' ']'
++ unset LC_NUMERIC
++ '[' -n '' ']'
++ unset LC_MONETARY
++ '[' -n '' ']'
++ unset LC_TIME
++ '[' -n '' ']'
++ unset LC_ALL
++ '[' -n '' ']'
++ unset LANGUAGE
++ '[' -n '' ']'
++ unset LINGUAS
++ '[' -n '' ']'
++ unset _XKB_CHARSET
++ '[' -n '' ']'
++ '[' -n iso01 ']'
+++ /sbin/consoletype
++ '[' vt100 = linux -a pty = vt ']'
++ unset SYSFONTACM SYSFONT
+ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/autologin -a -x /usr/sbin/autologin ']'
+ preferred=
+ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ']'
+ source /etc/sysconfig/desktop
+ '[' -n '' ']'
+ '[' '' = GNOME ']'
+ '[' '' = KDE -o '' = KDE1 -o '' = KDE2 ']'
+ '[' '' = AnotherLevel ']'
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ which gdm
+ preferred=gdm
+ '[' -n gdm ']'
+ which gdm
++ which gdm
+ exec /usr/bin/gdm

> --- Charles Marcus <CharlesM at Media-Brokers.com> wrote:
> > Guess I should have been more specific...
> > 
> > I have tried switchdesk (as root - many times), did
> > not check 'applies only to this display', and every
> > time I run it it is still set to GNOME.  Running
> > switchdesk does *not* change the contents of
> > /etc/sysconfig/desktop.  Also tried checking
> > 'Restore Desktop' when logging out of KDE as well.
> > 
> > I tried manually adding [DESKTOP="KDE"] (without the
> > brackets) in /etc/sysconfig/desktop, and nothing
> > changes (and the first time I opened this file, the
> > only thing there was [DESKT] (again, minus the
> > brackets) - in other words, the entry was
> > incomplete.
> > 
> > Couldn't make heads or tails out of /etc/X11/prefdm
> > (not a programmer, have yet to try to learn bash
> > scripting), but included whats in it below, in case
> > anyone can tell at a glance if anything is wrong
> > with it...
> > 
> > I just realized - I am using Ximian GNOME, not
> > regular - maybe that has something to do with it?
> > 
> > Oh well,  I think I'm gonna switch to Gentoo soon
> > anyway - gonna spend this weekend installing my
> > first server.
> > 
> > Later
> > 
> > Charles
> > 
> > /etc/X11/prefdm
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > 
> > PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> > 
> > # We need to source this so that the login screens
> > get translated
> > . /etc/profile.d/lang.sh
> > 
> > # Run preferred X display manager
> > 
> > # Try autologin first, if wanted...
> > if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/autologin -a -x
> > /usr/sbin/autologin ]; then
> >         if /usr/sbin/autologin; then
> >                 exit 0
> >         fi
> >         # If autologin fails (bad permissions,
> > etc.), we get here -
> >         # time to start a real display manager.
> > fi
> > 
> > preferred=
> > if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then
> >         source /etc/sysconfig/desktop >/dev/null
> > 2>&1
> >         [ -n "$DISPLAYMANAGER" ] &&
> > DESKTOP=$DISPLAYMANAGER
> >         if [ "$DESKTOP" = GNOME ]; then
> >                 preferred=gdm
> >         elif [ "$DESKTOP" = "KDE" -o "$DESKTOP" =
> > "KDE1" -o "$DESKTOP" = "KDE2" ]; then
> >                 preferred=/usr/bin/kdm
> >         elif [ "$DESKTOP" = AnotherLevel ] ; then
> >                 preferred=/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm
> >         fi
> > fi
> > if [ -z "$preferred" ]; then
> >         if which gdm >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> >                 preferred=gdm
> >         elif which kdm >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> >                 preferred=kdm
> >         elif which xdm >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> >                 preferred=xdm
> >         fi
> > fi
> > if [ -n "$preferred" ] && which $preferred
> > >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> >         exec `which $preferred` $* >/dev/null 2>&1
> > fi
> > if which gdm >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> >         exec `which gdm` $* >/dev/null 2>&1
> > elif which kdm >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> >         exec `which kdm` $* >/dev/null 2>&1
> > elif which xdm >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> >         exec `which xdm` $* >/dev/null 2>&1
> > fi
> > exit 1



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