Re: xdm config help
Hi,
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> I'm trying to set up xdm. Whenever I boot the last message I see before
> the login prompt is:
>
> Not starting X Display Manager (xdm); it is not the default display manager.
>
Are you sure you have not installed other display managers too, like wdm
or kdm?
However, on my system I found a file in /etc/X11 named
default-display-manager.
Check what it says, or if it does not exist do:
echo '/usr/bin/X11/xdm' > /etc/X11/default-display-manager
(or whereever xdm resists)
> I get the same message when I try to launch it manually as root. I'm
> been cruising the docs & all the likely files, but don't see how to set
> this. I looked in /etc/alternatives, nothing named 'display manager'. I
> looked at the conf files in /etc/X11, but there's nothing glaringly
> wrong. There is a file named "default-display-manager' in /etc/X11, and
> it's contents are '/usr/bin/xdm'.
>
oops, should have read further first ;-). However, try changing
/usr/bin/xdm to /usr/bin/X11/xdm. It might work.
> Any tips on this issue? Last step was to apt-get update to version
> 4.2.1.
>
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
> Thanks, PM
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> Paul Mackinney
> paul@mackinney.net
>
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