Re: problem with debian and xdm
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 08:50:49PM -0500, Recall X wrote:
> I just recently installed debian 3.0 on my dell inspiron 8100. And I am
> having a few problems. One, was the fact that i am using a radeon m7, but
> i got xfree86 4.2.0 and that seemed to work. Well here are the questions i
> guess.
>
> How do i get out of booting into xdm logon manager?
apt-get remove xdm kdm gdm wdm
(since I'm not sure which one you have that oughta cover it)
If you still have a Task installed that claims it depends on it,
remove the Task. Task packages don't remove the sub-packages when they
go, they just remove the insistence that they all be carried together.
I'm not a big fan of forcing GUI logins. If the GUI blows out or is
even mildly unhappy I prefer to still be able to get at my system, and
the graphical environment eats more energy anyway.
> I installed KDE 2.0 with apt-get, and now want to use another manager, how
> do i switch? I cannot find a .Xclients, .Xinirc file or anything where i
> can designate the default desktop.
Actually it'd be .xinitrc (lowercase)
If you want to affect the default for the whole system AND you have
another window manager installed, then:
update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
should allow you to select a different one.
> And when I su from my user account I cannot run programs. I get this
> message:
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0.
> Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use '-d'.
> Also use the 'xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit connections
> from your machine.
If you're able to login on a text console, then:
startx
should result in a running copy of X which is auth'd to that user
account. If it bails out, tell us what the complaint says about it.
As for su, I normally do that out of an xterm already running in X,
often using -fg and -bg parameters to color it oddly so I know that
it's an oddball session. It's so embarassing when you accidentally
issue drastic commands to the wrong system :/
* Heather Stern * star@ many places...
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