GDM is the Gnome Display Manager but a lot of people use it because it's a pretty good one. If it's noticably slowing down your system you could probably use more memory. I've never tried it but if you're on an rpm based distro you should be able to remove it using: rpm -e gdm Brady Quoting Sam MacDonald <smac at visi.com>: > Story of my life with Linux. > > Does Linux (the system) turn gnome off when it starts KDE, for us KDE users? > I think the answer is "no" because it needs it after a logout to > prompt for login. > So KDE users get the honor of using both KDE and gnome at the > same time? > > <sidebar> > So because I made the mistake, missing the "last" dialog box that says > something like "do you want to use a graphical login? with the default > of "use a graphical login". I've been cursed with a graphical login. > > If you remember our brave (ignorant) Linux user is also trying to get > rid of the graphical login. See the thread "Lost". In the middle I put > something about changing from graphical to terminal login. > > So I change the "inittab" file so it uses a "3" for multiuser login > instead of a "5" for X11 and restart the machine. > (Thanks to all for the information) > > Now this does not solve the original problem, it did stop the message > coming up every 2 -5 minutes. Even without X windows running the message > would display. Did I say X windows would start KDE without any > problem? Well it does, but the message would pop up as above until I > change "inittab". > OH did I say X windows is running about 20% faster now? OH I didn't, > well it is running about 20% faster then when I had the graphical > login. Best guess; 2 windows managers were running all the time. > > Did I say OO Writer starts then it did before the change to a terminal > login. Well it starts in 1 minute 25 seconds instead of 1 minute 55 > seconds. Yes, I timed it when I first installed it. > </sidebar> > > Back to the original problem... > > So I set the permissions using the file manager but now the error is (it > was before changeling to terminal login) > > "Server Authorization directory (Daemon/ServAuthdir) is set to /var/gdm > but has the wrong permissions, it should have permissions of 0750. > Please correct the permissions or the gdm configuration > /etc/X11/gem/gdm.conf and restart gdm" > > For the life of me I can't remember what the "human" values of 0750 > are. And I can't remember the command to set permissions. The > permissions should be corrected just in case I want to torcher myself > with a graphical login in some far off time. > > Sam. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list