[wplug] X respawning too fast?

[Poyner, Brandon]

What init is trying to do is start a display manager, which in turns
starts X.  The display manager is what provides you with a login screen
and allows clients to connect to the X server, where as just doing a
'startx' will simply run X as the current user.  What happens if you
type 'which kdm' and also a 'kdm'?

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer II
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086


-----Original Message-----
From: techmike [mailto:mikeslists at access995.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 3:11 PM
To: General user list
Subject: RE: [wplug] X respawning too fast?


Hrm, RH9 here..

/etc/sysconfig/desktop contains
DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"

At the risk of sounding dumb, what is the correct command to launch KDE?

If it is /usr/bin/share/kdeinit as I guessed then it too does nothing
when
run.

-Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: "Poyner, Brandon" <bpoyner at ccac.edu>
To: "General user list" <wplug at wplug.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:51:12 -0400
Subject: RE: [wplug] X respawning too fast?

> What distribution are you using?  If it's Redhat/Fedora you should
have
> a file /etc/sysconfig/desktop that defines your preferred display
> manager (gnome, kde, or xdm).  If that file is missing or doesn't have
> a
> correct DISPLAYMANAGER defined then /etc/X11/prefdm will exit without
> doing anything.  You could also try running gdm, kde, or xdm direct
> from
> the command line.  That's all that prefdm really does anyway, find
your
> preferred manager and start it.
> 
> Brandon Poyner
> Network Engineer II
> CCAC - College Office
> 412-237-3086


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