changing default display manager to kdm and managing login screen
When I could npt find /etc/sysconfig/desktop I thot they had moved it. But the release notes did not mention anything of this sort. Then I decided to look into /etc/X11/prefdm and there were the very familiar lines…
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then
. /etc/sysconfig/desktop
if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GNOME ]; then
preferred=/usr/sbin/gdm
quit_arg=”–retain-splash”
elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then
preferred=/usr/bin/kdm
elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = WDM ]; then
Now, it was certain, there should have been a file named /etc/sysconfig/desktop So I decided to createone with the lines DESKTOP=”KDE” and DISPLAYMANAGER=”KDE” Rebooting gave me what I wanted.
Managing the login screen seemed difficult at first because I could not find the Login manager. I realised that it had been moved to the Advanced section of System settings. There yu get all the options You would expect. Thats it! Now I have kdm at startup and KDE as my default.
