kde(3) mutterings

[Collins]

On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 18:48:28 -0500 Douglas J Hunley
<doug at hunley.homeip.net> wrote:> On Friday 05 April 2002 23:36, Collins
wrote:> > One of the things I don't like is kdm.  It seems there used to
be a way,> > but the current kdm has no way to exit X to a normal
console which I> > need from time to time to do maintenance as root (a
few things don't> > work in su mode) without X or to clone the system
for backup.> 
> use xdm. there is no real benefit to using kdm. hell, I used gdm to
> launch kde for a *long* time cause I liked gdm the best. now, I just
> run level 3 by default, and launch kde when I want it

I'm mostly an non-gui-login person using xfce, but I decided to give the
gui method a whirl when I put up KDE3. 

I tried xdm, but I could never get the xsm session manager to actually
give me a choice of sessions.  No matter what I did (except forcing
login to a given session) worked - the session choice screen presented
no choices and merely restarted the login screen.  Failsafe would bring
up a bare window with not even the standard 3 xterms that TWM offers.

The other problem I have with kdm, is that I can't successfully run xfce
as a session choice.  xfce starts, but it's crippled.  I haven't tried
selecting gnome, since I loathe gnome (except for galeon, which is
excellent).

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Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
Gentoo_rc6-15 2.4.19pre - xfce + sylpheed + mozilla