[gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

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

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
>


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