How can I change the login window?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 14:29 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Malcolm Kay
> <malcolm.kay at internode.on.net> wrote:
> >> I am running XFCE on F9. How can I change the login window?
> >>
> > XFCE doesn't present a login window. You can run this window
> > manager after logging in oon a console command line.
> >
> > The graphical login window is presented by whichever display
> > manager you are using -- usually gdm, kdm or xdm. Selecting a
> > different display manager will give you a different presentation,
> > and if you don't like any of these then you can write your own
> > or look for what else might have already been written.
> >
> > The display manager is normally activated by prefdm referenced in
> > /etc/inittab. It will also honour a DISPLAYMANAGER variable set
> > in /etc/initscript.
> 
> Thanks, Malcom. My /etc/inittab is below. How can I change the default
> theme to the Circles one? In F8, there was a menu entry
> 
> System --> Login manager
> 
> (or something like that), but nothing in F9.
[...]
> # Run xdm in runlevel 5
> x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

/etc/X11/prefdm is just a Shell script. It basically just
reads /etc/sysconfig/desktop and acts accordingly, so the easiest way to
add a new display manager is to edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop.

poc