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Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> Never mind. I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off |
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> XDM had failed. I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole |
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> system. And reasonable menus for rebooting Just Came Up. |
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> ++ kevin |
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> On 4/28/07, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I thought I had it configured for KDM, things are not going well. |
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>> rc-update says xdm is in default (and |
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>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Activate_Graphical_login |
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>> says this is a good thing. |
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>> /etc/conf.d/xdm says |
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>> DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" |
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>> and /etc/rc.conf just has a comment to look in that place, plus |
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>> XSESSION="kde-3.5" |
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>> When I'm logged out, however, I've got that ugly login thing that |
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>> takes only a username and password. There's no way to reboot without |
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>> somehow logging in as root, either on a PTY or through XDM. |
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>> I do have kdm-3.5.5-r1 emerged. |
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>> Logging does take me to KDE, but the menus in KDE also provide no way |
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>> to reboot. Going to root via su is not wonderful either, as execution |
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>> /sbin/shutdown -r does really strange things until it finally gets |
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>> clobbered |
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>> I'd like to clean this up: I'd like kdm, and I'd like a menu entry |
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>> for rebooting. |
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>> Advice? |
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>> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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I was wondering because I have mine set up the same way. If you want to |
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reset X the easy way, usually a ctrl alt backspace will work. Naturally |
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the ctrl alt del button should do a reboot. |
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Glad you got it going. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |
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www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 |
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Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. |
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