[PLUG] Slackware session manager: problem solved

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Jeff Schwaber wrote:

> I do not pretend to know how the installation could have been fixed, but
> I want to note that if you, or anyone else, does get gdm working, it
> does in fact support user shutdown, though not by default. In fact, gdm
> comes with a very sexy new look. It's not the default--you have to turn
> it on in gdmconfig, which must be run as root, yet is an X program, but
> with gdmconfig there are a lot of cool options including user shutdown
> and themes.

Jeff,

  Interestingly enough, kdm has user shutdown as a default option. The main
workstations/servers boot into console mode -- and so has my notebook over
the years -- so this is the first time I've configured a system to boot into
runlevel 4 (or 5 if it's on Red Hat). I find it more restrictive than
manually running 'startx' when I want it, but it's easier for her and
certainly easier to properly shut down the system when she's done.

Thanks for the input,

Rich

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