Re: locked out from gdm - input field greyed out
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 14:33 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> Hi B,
> maybe try wdm, I used to use it.
> apt-get install wdm
> cheers,
> Kev
Will check that out. Thanks!
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 21:32 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> B.Hoffmann wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I ended up removing gdm and it starts fine now with startx straight into
> > gnome! Will probably leave it at that and not reinstall gdm, sort of
> > reminds me of Slackware.
>
> Just make sure that you purge the screwed-up configurations files, i.e.
> run "dpkg --purge gdm". (A normal uninstall will leave all configuration
> files in place.) Otherwise you might run into trouble again if you ever
> decide to reinstall gdm, and at that time you might not remember anymore
> what the problem was, what you changed, etc.
>
> Regards,
> Florian
>
>
I'll make sure of that. Thanks for the purge command - didn't know that
one yet. What happens if I just manually deleted these files?
Kind Regards,
B.Hoffmann
Linux User #398054
-Foresight Linux- -Ubuntu- -Debian (Sarge)-
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