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Linux Desktop Hacks
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Linux Desktop Hacks

by Nicholas Petreley, Jono Bacon
March 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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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 ...
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