[NCLUG] Re: No Desktop Manager

[M Butcher]

Let me know if you got 'linux 3' to work.

Okay, so it looks like you are running GDM. In my distro, the configs for 
this are in '/etc/X11/gdm/'. There is a directory in there called 'Sessions' 
that contains startup scripts for each of the desktop environements. Mine has 
KDE, Gnome, IceWM, and SawMill as choices. Each one of these scripts calls 
'/etc/X11/Xsession', passing it the name of the window manager (e.g. KDE 
script says: 'exec /etc/X11/Xsession KDE'. Does debian look the same or 
similar? 

Matt

On Friday 27 April 2001 05:30 pm, you wrote:
> OK - I ran 'ps -ef' and while I don't want to write out *everything* that
> it showed, I did look for gdm-related things, as I saw Gnome Desktop
> Manager flash by. I also am including a gpm-related thing, because I don't
> know if it's relevant or not.
>
> root 155 1 0 17:07ttySO 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/ttySO -t m
> root 207 1 0 17:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
> root 218 207 0 17:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gdm
> root 223 218 9 17:07 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/gdmlogin --disable-soun
>
> I'd be interested in knowing what these things mean.
>
> I couldn't get in by typing "linux3" - it didn't like that. Likewise, when
> I tried typing in "startx" in text mode (having gotten to text mode via
> Ctrl-Alt-F1), it told me it was already running.
>
> Judy
>
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