From: D. H. <dha...@dr...> - 2005-02-03 06:12:06
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I thought I would send this to the list in case someone would find it useful. It won't be put into CVS as xcomp doesn't want to pollute his CVS tree with anything too distro specific. At any rate, this is an initscript for Fedora/Redhat that has chkconfig capabilities and follows the standard initscript flow. It will activate in runlevel 3. You do not want to be in runlevel 6 as that will activate the normal display manager. I plan on eventually filing a patch with fedora's bugzilla to allow more freedom in the way you can choose a display manager since I can't seem to find a way to generically choose a display manager without modifying system scripts. If anyone knows of a way, let me know. It seems you can only choose it generically like Gnome or KDE. FYI - I don't really use a display manager. I tried it out and saw a need for this. It worked for me - YMMV. //========================================================\\ || D. Hageman <dha...@dr...> || \\========================================================// |
From: Corey D. <at...@at...> - 2005-02-06 15:08:33
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I'll see if I can work this into my existing themers and brief how-to docs, tahanks D. * D. Hageman (dha...@dr...) wrote: > > I thought I would send this to the list in case someone would find it > useful. It won't be put into CVS as xcomp doesn't want to pollute his CVS > tree with anything too distro specific. > > At any rate, this is an initscript for Fedora/Redhat that has chkconfig > capabilities and follows the standard initscript flow. It will activate > in runlevel 3. You do not want to be in runlevel 6 as that will activate > the normal display manager. > > I plan on eventually filing a patch with fedora's bugzilla to allow more > freedom in the way you can choose a display manager since I can't seem to > find a way to generically choose a display manager without modifying > system scripts. If anyone knows of a way, let me know. It seems you can > only choose it generically like Gnome or KDE. > > FYI - I don't really use a display manager. I tried it out and saw a need > for this. It worked for me - YMMV. > __ Corey Donohoe http://www.atmos.org |
From: Didier C. <did...@gm...> - 2005-02-13 08:19:18
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I guess I would find it very useful. I could place it into the FAQ in http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~didierbe for those who want to start up entrance. I got loads of people asking me how to start entrance in Fedora now that they had the rpm at hand. I always shot at modifying /etc/ X11/prefdm and /etc/sysconfig/desktop, which in the end was a hassle. So if I can start the whole entrance just by a script, well that's really nice. Thanks. -- With kind regards, Didier. --- Didier F.B Casse | PhD candidate | Singapore Synchrotron light Source (SSLS) Email: didier.casse AT_Remove_THE_N00SPAM gmail DOT com | Web: http://ssls.nus.edu.sg On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:12:11 -0600 (CST), D. Hageman <dha...@dr...> wrote: > > I thought I would send this to the list in case someone would find it > useful. It won't be put into CVS as xcomp doesn't want to pollute his CVS > tree with anything too distro specific. > > At any rate, this is an initscript for Fedora/Redhat that has chkconfig > capabilities and follows the standard initscript flow. It will activate > in runlevel 3. You do not want to be in runlevel 6 as that will activate > the normal display manager. > > I plan on eventually filing a patch with fedora's bugzilla to allow more > freedom in the way you can choose a display manager since I can't seem to > find a way to generically choose a display manager without modifying > system scripts. If anyone knows of a way, let me know. It seems you can > only choose it generically like Gnome or KDE. > > FYI - I don't really use a display manager. I tried it out and saw a need > for this. It worked for me - YMMV. > > //========================================================\\ > || D. Hageman <dha...@dr...> || > \\========================================================// > > |
From: D. H. <dha...@dr...> - 2005-02-14 00:00:16
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I am glad someone will find value in it. I thought I would keep everyone in the loop and let you know that I have filed an "enhancement" bug in the fedora bugzilla. The link for it is below: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=147304 The have linked to the FC4Target bug which is a list of issues that *should* be resolved by FC4. On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Didier Casse wrote: > I guess I would find it very useful. I could place it into the FAQ in > > http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~didierbe > > for those who want to start up entrance. I got loads of people asking > me how to start entrance in Fedora now that they had the rpm at hand. > > I always shot at modifying /etc/ X11/prefdm and > /etc/sysconfig/desktop, which in the end was a hassle. > > So if I can start the whole entrance just by a script, well that's > really nice. Thanks. > > -- > With kind regards, > Didier. > --- > > Didier F.B Casse | PhD candidate | Singapore Synchrotron light Source (SSLS) > Email: didier.casse AT_Remove_THE_N00SPAM gmail DOT com | Web: > http://ssls.nus.edu.sg > //========================================================\\ || D. Hageman <dha...@dr...> || \\========================================================// |
From: D. H. <dha...@dr...> - 2005-06-01 02:35:59
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I realized I had not followed up on this post. The feature request was closed in the middle of April. If the user sets the $DISPLAYMANAGER variable in /etc/sysconfig/desktop with initscripts 8.08 and above ... it will attempt to use it. This will eliminate the need for a secondary initscript on Fedora/RedHat systems as well as modification to the system scripts. Also it was stated that you should be able to set the variable 'preferred' directly in /etc/sysconfig/desktop and have it work with initscripts < 8.08. I have not tested this yet. On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, D. Hageman wrote: > > I am glad someone will find value in it. > > I thought I would keep everyone in the loop and let you know that I have > filed an "enhancement" bug in the fedora bugzilla. The link for it is below: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=147304 > > The have linked to the FC4Target bug which is a list of issues that *should* > be resolved by FC4. > > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Didier Casse wrote: > >> I guess I would find it very useful. I could place it into the FAQ in >> >> http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~didierbe >> >> for those who want to start up entrance. I got loads of people asking >> me how to start entrance in Fedora now that they had the rpm at hand. >> >> I always shot at modifying /etc/ X11/prefdm and >> /etc/sysconfig/desktop, which in the end was a hassle. >> >> So if I can start the whole entrance just by a script, well that's >> really nice. Thanks. >> >> -- >> With kind regards, >> Didier. >> --- >> >> Didier F.B Casse | PhD candidate | Singapore Synchrotron light Source >> (SSLS) >> Email: didier.casse AT_Remove_THE_N00SPAM gmail DOT com | Web: >> http://ssls.nus.edu.sg >> > > //========================================================\\ > || D. Hageman <dha...@dr...> || > \\========================================================// > //========================================================\\ || D. Hageman <dha...@dr...> || \\========================================================// |