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 1Hhut0-000240-Pp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:55:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3SLs7LH017952; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:54:07 GMT Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.250]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3SLnlg2013181 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:49:47 GMT Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b8so907741ana for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:49:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=HPXwJHPgPj00tRFIPZRE2MiQ74u6vD199bLU6BCS7+whb7aLnUJ7fnbj9+Jj+v9DtOvdhayTawyxgrNyFUWinxv0uaYUKZ3ZeqLuK0XoEhNOzCsxYy/y/xiZxYDRgReb4W1KkI+aaOasY0KPaFh+lb0JSw5jn4YJFTRtKm+0oPA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Tu7tQBPgd1vZxtgbUcvA+PFqLCBHQlCUKvCC48gtNspqXLoylYx7Cc7f16gdNP6hCzuT2Vn45c4mb3zvxnATKOxRXqlsXZEOZZpVgJxWsrJsdbJRfBOuZf102xweszqjQ7cGeDceiIa7Gz8dmtiJy54gCctc3tEx+c5kKc9oJ7s= Received: by 10.100.9.19 with SMTP id 19mr3048561ani.1177796987097; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:49:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.43.15 with HTTP; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:49:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9acccfe50704281449s5d04d495ra89b480c5d7f7906@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:49:47 -0700 From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50704281429l68b3596dw20c0f8c986e51395@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9acccfe50704281429l68b3596dw20c0f8c986e51395@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 27efcd97-6286-429c-8c4e-721cb48ac559 X-Archives-Hash: 7e60710f4b6e4f848bbee658e6927d17 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 > -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list