What's that ? KDE hacked VL's login screen !

[demigaucher]

Hi everybody

First, congratulations and thanks to all the VL team for VL6.0:
beautiful artwork, nice graphical installer, better internationalization.
Great task !  VL is clearly on the way up to the top of distrowatch
page.

I want to report the following (minor) problem: the login screen of
VL6.0 (in which I type my login name and passord) has been replaced
by another one, clearly from KDE (the graphics with the gearbox leaves
no doubt). This occured after having installed, with gslap, some kde
packages.

To pin down the problem, I made a pristine install of VL6.0, then installed
with gslapt the package "kdebase", and logged out. At reboot, a KDE login
screen had superseded the original one from VL !

This does not prevent the login, but is irritating since I did not ask KDE to hack
my login screen ! I want to use some packages from KDE, like ksnapshot, kedit,
etc... and I think  kdebase is needed, but I would like to re-establish the original
VL's login screen.

Has someone an idea ?


Demigaucher
Old Pentium 3 @ 700 MHz, 384 MB ram

[caitlyn]

With vasmCC or vasm click XWindow, click Display Manager, select gdm.

That should do it.

[M0E-lnx]

the kdebase package does that. You can fix it by editing /etc/rc.d/rc.X and change the line that says KDM to GDM

[demigaucher]

Hi Caitlyn, Hi MOE-Inx.

I'll try now your solutions. Thanks to both of you for your answers.

Demigaucher
Old Pentium 3 @ 700 MHz, 384 MB ram

[demigaucher]

Hi Caitlyn, Hi MOE-Inx

I tried both of your suggestions:

1) Caitlyn's suggestion: after selecting GDM in VASM, I was asked to logout, and enter a command-line console
    with CTL-ALT-F1. Unfortunately, CTL-ALT-F1 did NOT give a command-line terminal, but a fixed blue screen
    with the nice VL logo in the center    [CTL-ALT-F7 gave me back my graphical screen  ]. So I could not
    proceed further, and tried the next action:
2) MOE-Inx's suggestion: I modified /etc/rc.d/rc.X  + reboot. Worked fine, ant the nice VL's login screen is back

Problem solved, thanks to both of you. But did somebody else observe this strange behaviour of CLT-ALT-F1 ?
(We can live with it, anyway !)

Best regards to all.

Demigaucher
Old Pentium 3 @ 700 MHz, 384 MB ram