Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE 4.1.2 issues - updated
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:16:35
Message-Id: 491074A1.9080102@ercbroadband.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE 4.1.2 issues - updated by "Till Schwalbe (Gentoo)"
1 Till Schwalbe (Gentoo) wrote:
2 > Hi Mark,
3 >
4 > Am Dienstag, 4. November 2008 14:16:25 schrieb Mark Haney:
5 >> Well, I've got kdebase installed (and I must say the new sets are
6 >> awesome. I love it.) but I'm stumped on a problem.
7 >>
8 >> Instead of the KDE4.1 greeter, I'm getting the generic X Windows greeter
9 >> login screen. I've checked /etc/conf.d/xdm and it says
10 >> 'DISPLAYMANAGER=kde-4.1', and I've changed /etc/rc.conf to be kde-4.1,
11 >> but still I get the X login.
12 >>
13 >> What am I missing?
14 >
15 > A few days ago I had the same problem. Then I changed the entries in both
16 > rc.conf and conf.d/xdm to "kdm" without any extension, and now it works.
17 >
18 > Maybe the "4.1" is only functional if one sets the kdeprefix useflag.
19 >
20 > HTH.
21 >
22 > Have a nice day.
23 > Till
24 >
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26 Well, maybe, but I can say it doesn't work in this case, as I use the
27 kdeprefix flag.
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