How to find which display manager is currently being used? I don't mean desktop environment (KDE, Gnome...) but X11 display manager, like kdm, gdm, ldm, xdm, etc.See:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_display_manager_(program_type)How to switch from one to the other.I am writing some documentation relat ...
Need a little help here, I have a system where Gnome is the default window manager, but I also have KDE3 & Enlightenment installed also. I can switch between the three options without any problems, but yesterday I downloaded KDE4 and I now have a small problem. During KDE4 setup I was asked whic ...
I thought I would share this:http://userimages.ittoolbox.com/user/s_964720.jpgKubuntu v.s. PC-BSDDru (http://www.ittoolbox.com/profiles/dlavigne6) (SysAdmin, Technical Writer, Technical Trainer) Posted 8/18/2007Comments (http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/kubuntu-vs-pcbsd-18431#comments) ( ...
i really dont know what else to tell you, i began having problems with my external monitor showing up as unknown, and giving me weird res choices, like wide screen and stuff.i wanted to reinstall though, there were some things i wanted to try from a fresh install. i figured now was a good time.but u ...
Ubuntu Fans :popcorn:Have been trying this install about a half dozen times now only to have the system hang when checking the display manager as best I can figure. I am using the Ubuntu Live 810iso which has required restoring my winXP partition between installs. So I get this popup saying "Di ...
So, Ubuntu N00b here.I formatted my XP box and installed 9.04 from a disc recently and things have gone swimmingly. My video card is an older ATI Radeon X1650 Pro 512MB which is no longer supported. Not knowing that, I tried a few driver setups while Ubuntu was working. No luck, but my box kept on g ...
As the topic states my fathers HP Omnibook XT6200 "hangs" after loading display manager. I've tried installing Ubuntu 7.04 (which worked just fine, but is out of date, so I can't do any updates and installing on it)/8.04 (not working after dipslay manager load)/8.10 (not working after dips ...
Hello, PC-BSD 1.0 was released today! :D From their website, http://www.pcbsd.org :PC-BSD has as its goal to be an easy to install and use desktop OS, which is built on the FreeBSD operating system. To accomplish this, it currently has a graphical installation, which will enable even UNIX novices to ...
In Ubuntu 11.04 and previous, I was able to configure GRUB so that I could boot into a virtual terminal without starting the display manager or the X server. Basically, I followed the first set of instructions in this thread:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9644518#post9644518And everything ...
I had intially chosen Kde display manager to bring up the login display. After looking at the display manager of Gnome I wanted to have it as my permanent login display. I am not able to change the Kde login display to Gnome login display even after making the changes in the root a/c(which was intia ...
I have installed PC-BSD on a suitable primary partition and am trying to get it to mount on booting SuSE 10.2.The command:mount -t ufs <device> <media> -o ufstype=ufs2works fine. mtab then says:/dev/sda3 /linux/PC-BSD ufs rw,ufstype=ufs2 0 0(which is pleasing as it can indeed rw, somethi ...
I am running OpenSuse 11.0 with KDE 4.1.2. I have been updating KDE 4 via Yast on a regular basis. I have the KDE Factory repository added but auto updates do not occur for KDE 4, thus I update manually.Can someone clarify which package is necessary to upgrade for KDE 4? Thus far I have been updatin ...
From what I can tell in my quick scanning of the topic titles in this thread, most people who have tried out a BSD have been working with FreeBSD. If you are looking for a really easy way to use a BSD, and specifically FreeBSD as your desktop OS, take a look at the PC BSD and Desktop BSD projects. B ...
what is the difference among freeBSD net BSD and PC BSD?are they all free?which would be the best for me?i love slackware and gentoo if that helps!!! ...
Anyone know where I can find a LiveCD version of PC-BSD? I've created a USB version, but for the life of me can't get it to load on the two boxes on which I've tried. I'm thinking a LiveCD version may be my next step.Many ...
I installed PC-BSD while having Ubuntu and WinXP on. Now the BSD bootloader is so messed up by default, I can only boot from disk or into what it calls "DOS" which is WinXP. It has Linux in Option 'F3' and nothing on 'F2'...However when I press F3 nothing happens. So I can't even boot into ...
I've googled my brains out over this. I once figured out how to do this in Slackware (found which file to edit).I'm on Gentoo now and I want to know what file I can edit to change my display manager.I'd also like to know how to do this is Debian and Slackware. ...
This isn't a full-fledged review (hence the title isn't "My Experience with..."), since I wasn't able to completely run this OS through its paces. I just had an interesting first impression and thought I'd share it, for what it's worth.I ran across PC-BSD yesterday on DistroWatch, and sinc ...
I looked everywhere on the internet to change my display manager from kdm to gdm, but it always fails. It says that gdm is the default, but I still get the kdm/kde pointer, which I can tell apart from the gdm/gnome one. There is a bug on Launchpad (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/ ...
Hi. Yesterday I was prompted to update several packages by update manager, around 54Mb in all. Among the updates were updates for firefox and GNOME. The packages downloaded fine, but as they were being implemented, I recieved a lot of messages telling me that the installation had failed, including o ...
I am rather new to ubuntu, I installed 6.04 LTS on my machine and the upgraded to 8.04 LTS, and then 10.04 LTS. I was playing around with appearance settings and chose the highest level of window animation but this seemed to cause some sort of problem with gnome (the top bar of windows disappeared i ...
SO I had a nice setup of gNewSense , an ubuntu based distro with only FOSS repos, in a vbox vm on win7 host and I installed KDE4 on it to see how it was progressing. upon doing this, I set KDM as my default display Manager. When I reboot to see if it worked, I get a the normal list of daemons and st ...
I recently installed KDE4.1 in parallel to Gnome and KDE3.5. I decided KDE4.1, despite its many bugs, was stable enough to use as my default desktop environment and it has worked pretty well.The other that, if I am going with KDE4.1, I might as well make kdm-kde4 my default display manager instead o ...
Just got a copy of ubuntu client and everything seems to go fine, after I partition it begins to install then at around 70% my monitor flickers and occasionally I see artifacts sort of effect. Eventually it gives up giving me a message the display manager failed and will try again in 2mins.I am runn ...
I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 and I just installed kubuntu-desktop. However, I selected gde as the default display during installation thinking I would be given a choice between using KDE or Gnome at startup. Which I wasn't, at boot it just went straight into Gnome. When selecting the default the prompt a ...
Have a bit of a problem.. I kinda sorta messed with my system a few days back and now gnome wont load as the default display manager. On boot up once the check list reaches gnome it displays a Red star and says cannot run gnome it is not the default display manager... I had.. well not accidently .. ...
im looking for a light weight display manager that supports auto login,im currently using GDM, but it seems to hang for a while on startup, i have also tried xde, which is alot lighter but doesnt support auto login does any one know of any other display managers ? ...
I've been having hell lately with my display manager(s).I have installed kubuntu-desktop so I have both GNOME and but the display manager for both will not work.I dont know why they are palying up, as I have exactly the same setup on another (newer) computer.I used to have to restart X at the displa ...
OK, the story starts with Alsa not working properly with my system after the upgrade to Ubuntu 6.10 from 6.06. Due to certain events in my personal life I have not had time to trouble shoot nor really cared as I was using the computer less.I thought that perhaps installing Kubuntu would be the solut ...
Yesterday I installed PC-BSD on an old Compaq Deskpro EN Series SFF PIII, just for fun I thought. Installation of AbiWord didn't work so I left PC-BSD and I wanted to install Xubuntu 7.10 from the alternate CD but the network card wasn't recognized.After the installation I ran 'sudo lshw':*-network ...
I've been wondering if it is possible to use a fast(er) computer as an X display manager and a slower computer as an X server to improve the performance of the X server. Here are the specifics:I have an IBM ThinkPad laptop (233 MHz, 100 MB RAM) which is still a little slow when running Xubuntu or Ve ...
I've been using Ubuntu for a while now and want to start looking at non-Ubuntu based OS's. I really got looking at -BSD based OS's and have come across PC and Open. Which one would be the best for a person just starting into the BSD world? I know OpenBSD is more secure, but I've read that because of ...
Just downloaded the PC-BSD DVD (http://www.pcbsd.org/content/view/152/11/) for install...next step burning the DVD then installing it.Is anybody else running PC-BSD 8.0?I did notice you can use either KDE, Enlightenment, Gnome or XFCEhttp://www.pbidir.com/bt/category/WMIt's been a while since I have ...
Wow... I just installed this today, and while I haven't had a lot of time to play with it, I've got to say, it is a swank little OS. Much like Ubuntu, PC-BSD just WORKS. I've had troubles installing *BSD in the past, and I'm a fairly experienced computer user. This went through very easily.Granted, ...
Here is some info for LightDM in Oneiric.https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LightDMWhat is LightDM?LightDM is a display manager. The most user visible aspect of the display manager is the login screen, however it also manages the X servers and facilitates remote logins using the XDMCP protocol. It is proposed ...
Hai,When I start the system, sometimes I get login prompt and sometimes I get KDM display manager. I dont know why is this happening? How Should I fix this problem so that I should get GUI, whenever I start the machine. ...
i've spend lof of time on an issue with my display manager :i m using etch and xserver-xorg 6.9.Here is the problem :at the end of the kernel's boot, kdm daemon is launched '/etc/rc2.d/S99kdm'the daemon is turning on but i got a black screen.But when i go back in a tty, log as root, i relaunch the s ...
after "emerge portage", system responds there are 86 config files in /etc need updating and 95 config files in /usr/share/X11/xkb need updating , I run the command "etc-update", everything seems fine, but when I reboot Gentoo, I can not enter Gnome and get the error message ...
I am trying to install a login theme to gnome but there is a problem. i opened the terminal and logged in as root then started gnome display manager but after its splash screen this error comes:There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background s ...
I have a dual monitor set up and when ever I make a change to the 2nd monitor it resets my Display Manager to XDM and I have to go back in and change it to KDE and then reboot the box. Why?Also I have talked to others without dual monitors that have had this setting reset for them also. They are the ...
I have an Ati video that takes charge of my dual screen.After an update from karmic koala, my ubuntu display manager is enable.I guess having the ACC and the ubuntu display manager makes my windows response slow.How can I can I disable the ubuntu display manager and keep only my Ati Control Center ? ...
i have Kubuntu installed. default display manager was 'kdm'. i installed 'gdm' yesterday. after installation, Adept asked to choose default session manager. i selected 'gdm'. its working good but i dont like it. now i want to revert back to kdm. dont know how ???please help. i want kdm back.TIAsandr ...
hiI wanted to install skype, so i followed the instructions on this site :https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Skypeand because i have an amd64, i installed the i386 files and i386 librarieslibdbus-1.3, libqt4-core, libqt4-gui,skype worked nicely!but i closed skype and continued using my ubuntu, but th ...
What is the most lightweight display manager that will allow automatic-login? ...
This is pretty odd.I have had 8.04 since it came out and it has functioned just fine until today. I reorganized my desk including unplugging power, NW, UPS. Upon rebottong, the display was shifted way to the left. Tweaking the settings in system settings and the monitor seemed to correct the issue f ...
i have recently downloaded kde4 and i selected kdm as the display manager , how do i change it to gdm again...i have already used the "help" in gdm but it dint work... ...
Hi, my GNOME Display manager also isn't working. When I try to run "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start" (or stop), it says "fail". When I try running 'startx', I get this:Code: ...
Trying to move from Opensuse to Ubuntu but can't get system to load Display Manager. CD Live works normal but when I do an install, I end up at the virtual terminal. Don't know where to go from here. ...
** spoiler-alert ** I actually just have to know how i open the diplay managing program through the terminal. Explination below.This is spooky. I tried to connect my monitor to my TV and the result was a little disturbing. I think that i in the process chose the, now not connected, other monitor as ...
When I first heard PC-BSD was available, I thought it was a great idea for the desktop/user side. I loved the idea of PC-BSD. Finally non-linux distro with the stability and organization of BSD that is a gui from the beginning and has a good installer.Then I installed it on vmware and it didn't real ...