Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (352 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 28 October 2011 02:59:19 Valerio Mariani wrote:
> Dear All,
>
>  I have the following scenario: I am using KDE and my wife is using
> Gnome. As a DM we use KDM. Now, from KDE I can switch user to Gnome,
> but not the other way around, as Gnome wants GDM, which I don't want
> to use (I prefer KDM).

Can you explain more why gnome requires to be started from gdm?  I wasn't 
aware that there was a runtime dependency there?

WIll

> I am experimenting with a program called kdm-gdmcompatibility
> http://opensource.fsmi.uni-karlsruhe.de/projects/kdm-gdmcompat/ , but
> it seems not to be working with Gnome 3.2.
>
> So, I would like to be able to do the following:
>
> - either run a KDM instance on v7 and a GDM one on vt8 at boot, so I
> can use one to log into KDE and the other to log into Gnome.
>
> - or, it this is not possible, to run two KDM instances on vt7 and vt8
> , and switch between them using CTRL+ALT.
>
> Can anyone tell me please if it is possible to achieve any of these
> options and how (I guess this should be put into an X configuration
> file)?
>
> Thank you in advance
>
>    Valerio
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