Garnome + GDM + Mandrake

[brucedjones]

i recently compiled garnome to use as my default desktop as i could not find any credible gnome 2.8 rpms. and i was wondering how i can set it so that i used GDM from garnome instead of the standard KDM or GDM that comes in the rpms. ie set a config file to use gdm instead of kdm,xdm etc. can anyone help??

[bvc]

been a while since I played with this stuff but.....

the service is called

/etc/rc.d/init.d/dm

in it you find it calls

/etc/X11/prefdm

which says

# we have to assume that /etc/sysconfig/desktop has two variables, DESKTOP
# and DISPLAYMANAGER because administors may prefer a specific DM regardless
# of desktops.
# DISPLAYMANAGER is referenced by this script, and DESKTOP is referenced
# as system-wide default by /etc/X11/Xsession script only when X-session
# is opened by "startx" command.
# when DMs open an X-session, they send DESKTOP, which is in this case
# directly selected by users, as a commandline argument of /etc/X11/Xsession.
# actually Xsession script is only able to know by existance of its first
# argument whether it is called by DM or "startx". see the logic
# in /etc/X11/Xsession.
# If DISPLAYMANAGER is not defined, then assume that it is the same as DESKTOP

 

so it appears that it's just going to call the binary in /usr/bin, either

/usr/bin/gdm

/usr/bin/gdm-binary

 

So you could rename them while not running, I think

mv -f /usr/bin/gdm /usr/bin/gdmDEF

mv -f /usr/bin/gdm-binary /usr/bin/gdm-binaryDEF

 

and use a symlink to garnome's (example)

ln -s /opt/gnome/usr/bin/gdm /usr/bin/gdm

ln -s /opt/gnome/usr/bin/gdm-binary /usr/bin/gdm-binary

[adamw]

as for 2.8 RPMs, try Goetz Waschk's - http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~wa.../gnome2.7/RPMS/ - if you're running 10.1CE or Cooker.