Re: xdm setup

[Nick Hastings <hastings@bmail.kek.jp>]

Hi,

* David List <david@davidlist.dk> [030916 17:15]:
> I'm looking into the graphical login setup on my newly installed Debian
> Woody. I'm used to having a line near the end of /etc/inittab that says
> how the graphical login screen should behave, for instance:
> 
> # Run XDM in run level 5
> x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm -nodaemon
> 
> I don't see this in the default Debian /etc/inittab file (I chose xdm as
> my display manager during installation).
> In which file(s) is it decided how the login screen should act, on a
> Debian system?

Sorry I don't know the specifics for xdm (I use gdm), but in general
you can find out where the config files are for a given package by
looking at what files it puts in /etc

dpkg -L xdm | grep etc

However, I think you are better to first re-run the configuration
scripts:

dpkg-reconfigure xdm

or 

dpkg-reconfigure -plow xdm

If you can't set what you want with dpkg-reconfigure, then try editing
the files in /etc by hand.

Cheers,

Nick.

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