Linux Desktop Hacks

Scrap X11 for Fancy Login Consoles #20

Chapter 3, Login Managers

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/etc/rc4.d/S99kdm

/etc/rc6.d/K01kdm

On Gentoo, the command should be as follows:

# rc-update del xdm default

A generic approach also exists that should work with almost every Linux

distribution (it doesn’t work for Fedora).

First, check to see what the default run level is for your system. You can do

this by examining the file /etc/inittab. Look for a line that reads like this:

id:3:initdefault:

This tells you the default run level is 3. For most Linux systems, this means

you want to log in as root and change to the directory /etc/rc3.d. If the

default run level turned out to be 5, you would change to the directory /etc/

rc5.d. Then look for any symbolic links to

kdm, gdm,orxdm and delete them.

For example:

# cd /etc/rc3.d

# ls -l *dm

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 17 2003 S99xdm -> ../init.d/xdm

# rm S99xdm

Install Qingy

If your Linux distribution has a Qingy package, install it via your package

manager. If you can install Qingy from a package manager, it will likely

place configuration files in the /etc/qingy directory, place theme files in /usr/

share/qingy/themes, and install the qingy program in /sbin.

If you download the source code and compile it yourself, it

will store configuration files (by default) in /usr/local/etc/

qingy, store theme files in /usr/local/share/qingy/themes, and

place the executable qingy in /usr/local/sbin ...