From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HhvAG-0005Mc-9H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:13:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3SMBvCc003713; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:11:57 GMT Received: from mirus.exceedtech.net (ns0.exceedtech.net [70.151.169.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3SM7XwQ031153 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:07:34 GMT Received: from [4.231.95.156] (dialup-4.231.95.156.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.95.156]) by mirus.exceedtech.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l3SM7tIf025747 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:07:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4633C5A1.10708@exceedtech.net> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:07:29 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070317 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM References: <9acccfe50704281429l68b3596dw20c0f8c986e51395@mail.gmail.com> <9acccfe50704281449s5d04d495ra89b480c5d7f7906@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50704281449s5d04d495ra89b480c5d7f7906@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a5b921c8-a075-4619-adbc-5661b1013b29 X-Archives-Hash: 09570300104930cd6a751eac47e4dfa1 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 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 :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list