[gentoo-user] Stuck in XDM

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

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
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