On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:46:18 +0000 Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:

This is beginning to drive me crazy, I can't get *any* of xdm, kdm or gdm to work sensibly for me.

Of the three at the moment gdm is closest, it's fairly easy to configure to allow remote connections and to disable local ones. The only thing it lacks at the moment is that I can't make it default to xfce (as per my previous messages).

I dont use XFCE but icewm but have a file as shown

cat /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/IceWM #!/bin/sh # # /etc/gdm/Sessions/IceWM # # global IceWM session file, used by gdm

exec /etc/X11/Xsession /usr/bin/icewm-session

kdm is the most frustrating program invented. It's effectively impossible (without arcane knowledge) to get it configured so that it allows remote connections.

Is it not identical to XDM interms of configuration?

Since remote connections are just about the only point of running XDMCP this seems a bit silly. The KDE control centre configuration window for KDM allows all sorts of cosmetic changes but nothing useful.

Agreed

xdm used to work but for some odd reason the version that comes with slackware 10 is built for IPV6 and just falls over when run on my current slackware 10 system.

(OK, rant over, I'll go away and cry for a while)

-- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)

"Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by
incompetence."

Or backwards compatability,

(I always thought windows was persecuting me till they removed the ability to support DOS and windows 3 applications.)

Good luck

Owen