[ILUG] Ximian acting the b****x with KDE?

[Declan Moriarty]

Was it Nick Murtagh who wrote on Monday 18 February 2002 13:10:

> I haven't noticed this problem because I don't use KDE, but I have noticed
> a different Mandrake 8.1 + Ximian problem: gdm doesn't remember my settings
> properly, so that if I login it goes straight into KDE instead of Gnome. I
> have to choose Gnome from the menu every time I login, which is starting
> to annoy me. Anyone know how to fix this?

Sure - install xtart from Mandrake. I leaned on the guys there and one of 
them came up with it. I believe they sanitised it later, but here's the 
original dedication:
#!/usr/bin/env python
#  This is an official linux-mandrake extension of the X windowing system for
#  the benefit of Declan Moriarty  Copyright 2001 by civileme at mandrakesoft all
#  rights reserved.  Use is hereby granted under the GNU General Publoic
#  License version 2 or any future version of said license at the user's
#  option
#
#  No Warranty of course.  This is designed directly for old men whose teenage
#  kids become impatient with their farting around with weird-assed window
#  managers.


It uses the headers in /etc/X11/wmsession.d to start the manager of your 
choice

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	Declan Moriarty




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