Default Display Manager?

[Gerry Visel]

   Thanks, Peter!  That worked fine except...  I get a dialog box that
pops up at the end of login that says "Failed to initialize HAL."  

   Who is HAL, and why does he need initials in my computer?  ;-)

Gerry

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 13:26 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:42:57 -0600
> "Gerry Visel" <gcvisel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >    I downloaded Edgy and Kubuntu, but do not like the KDM interface as
> > well as the original GDM.  Is there a way to delete KDM(?) and load
> > GDM by default?
> > 
> I'm not quite clear whether you mean that you have both ubuntu-desktop and
> kubuntu-desktop installed. If you do, there should be (at least on Dapper
> 6.06) a file "/etc/X11/default-display-manager"
> 
> If you have kdm running by default it will contain  /usr/bin/kdm . If
> you change this to /usr/sbin/gdm , then gdm will start instead of kdm. A
> quick way to change it is to type in a terminal
> 
> echo "/usr/sbin/gdm" | sudo tee /etc/X11/default-display-manager 
> 
> I seem to recall you can achieve the same thing by running 
> 
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm  or kdm 
> 
> - but I can never remember which one ;-)
> You could try that way if you wish. Of course, if you want gdm and it is
> not yet  installed, you need to install it first ... but that's obvious I
> suppose !
> 
> Peter
>