Re: Is there ANY documentation on kdm?

From: Fred Emmott (pcfreak65_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/04/04 

Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 23:15:54 +0000

Barnet Wagman wrote:

> Is there ANY documenation on kdm other than "The kdm handbook
> (http://docs.kde.org/en/3.1/kdebase/kdm/) which is four years old and
> does not have the information that I need. There's no documentation
> about it in my SuSE distribution (8.2) and nothing other than the
> handbook on the kde site (also no kdm mailing list).
>
> I need to configure kdm to handle remote logins, which should be
> relatively simple. I'd switch to xdm or gdm, but kdm is what SuSE uses
> and I'd like to avoid having to figure out how to switch dms.
>
> SuSE itself has nothing on kdm, other than a couple of entries in the
> support database which are indequate.
>
> This lack of documentation is extremely frustrating - it's why I
> switched to SuSE from Redhat in the first place, but SuSE's
> documentation seems to be getting worse.
>
> Thanks
>
> bwhttp://www.suse.de/en/company/suse/contact/index.html

I'm using gdm quite happily - edit DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" to
DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, then run SuSEconfig
- no problem at all

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