Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

[Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net>]

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 <kogorman@gmail.com> 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

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