Re: Is there ANY documentation on kdm?

From: Barnet Wagman (bw_at_northbranchlogic.com)
Date: 02/04/04 

Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 23:19:14 GMT

Thanks. If I don't find any kdm documentation by tomorrow, I'll switch
to gdm.

Fred Emmott wrote:
> 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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