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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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> |
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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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> |
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> -- |
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> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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