kdm & gdm problems (?)

[Fraser Campbell]

On Sunday 11 April 2004 16:03, Fraser Campbell wrote:

> I haven't looked through the startup in huge detail so there might be a
> better way but this seems to work for me:
>
> Want GNOME?
>
>   echo /usr/bin/gnome-session > ~/.xsession
>
> Want KDE?
>
>   echo /usr/bin/startkde > ~/.xsession
>
> There's also a file ~/.dmrc which is where kdm (and presumably other
> display managers) track your choice of Session.  My .dmrc looks like this:
>
> [Desktop]
> Session=kde
>
> Presumably you can set Session=gnome in there if you like.  I've seen the
> blank screen syndrome as well (I'm guessing that's what you see?) and
> the .xsession trick seems to get around it.  When I launch a gnome session
> I get a blank screen the only option seems to be a middle click that gets
> you a menu ... that's with gnome 2.4.

Since you mentioned apt I assumed you were using Debian.  So in addition to my 
instruction possibly being incorrect for Debian, they may also be incorrect 
for other distros ;-)

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Georgetown, Ontario, Canada                               Debian GNU/Linux
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