Strange message at startup

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Mar 8 23:04:34 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 18:15 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 10:31 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 19:46 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> > > On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 12:13 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > > > Unfortunately a search of /var/log as root:
> > > >         # find -type f | xargs fgrep Administrator
> > > > returns nothing.  It looks like the display manager is gdm, since 
> > > > /var/log/gdm exists and no other /var/log/*dm does. This may be a
> > > > problem, since I use KDE.
> > > 
> > > It's easy to change to KDM. Create a /etc/sysconfig/desktop file
> > > containing:
> > > 
> > > DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE
> > > 
> > > and reboot.
> > > 
> > > poc
> > > 
> > 
> > It is even easier. After you put in your login name there is a window on
> > the screen where you can chose thew window manager to boot.
> 
> No, that's for changing the desktop environment. The window manager is
> different.
> 
> poc
> 

You are right but changing the desktop environment is what OP seems to
want to do.
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