[NBLUG/talk] Starting in gdm rather than xdm

[Todd Cary]

Mark -

Right on!  When I installed GNOME (or thought I had) with a "yum -y 
groupinstall", I had missed the pgpkey error.  It was not completely 
installed.  All is now working just fine.

By chance, do you know how to activate the GUI Server Settings?  I have 
http, ftp and samba installed, but the GUI settings do not appear.

Todd

Mark Street wrote:

>startx will .... start X.  But you want a X Display Manager to start in 
>runlevel 5.
>
>>From what you describe below you may have some more package work to do.  After 
>you get a bit closer you can read below and set your "preferred display 
>mangager".  Happy package hunting.... ... gdm seems appropriate...
>
>The actual file that sets the DM is /etc/X11/prefdm
>
>Which basically checks a file /etc/sysconfig/desktop to see whether you want 
>GNOME, KDE or XDM.  If it finds one it runs it.  If it doesn't then it tries 
>one until it succeeds, if it doesn't it exits.
>
>On Monday 15 August 2005 7:44 pm, Todd Cary wrote:
>  
>
>>In order to avoid having a read error from the installer after well
>>along the process, I decided to try loading the minimal Linux and then
>>installing what I need.  But that is requiring me to expand my knowlege
>>about the installation/boot process (not a bad thing).
>>
>>So, I used yum to install the GNOME grouplist and I set the ID in
>>inittab to 5 so it would boot in the graphical mode.  That did not
>>happen, so I loaded the X-Window grouplist and it did bring me into the
>>graphical mode (after asking me the setup questions I usually get when I
>>do an install in the Graphical mod).
>>
>>Now my main question is "how do I get Linux to come up in Gnome"?  It is
>>coming up in what I suspect is X-Windows.
>>
>>Again, many thanks for your help and patience....
>>    
>>

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