----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 09:24 Subject: Re: GUI login screen.
> Am Mittwoch, 5. November 2003 15:27 schrieb Hoyt Bailey: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "John Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 04:30 > > Subject: Re: GUI login screen. > > > > > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > > >From: "Roberto Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 08:41 > > > >Subject: Re: GUI login screen. > > > > > > > >I do not dissagree on any point. However it should be my choice. <snip> > > > I have been reading this thread and I find all this very strange. > > > I installed Debian base (network install) and then went to Sarge . > > > Installed X, KDM and KDE and I have all that I used > > > to have in other distros - I can do all that you mention and more ! > > > There may be ways not to have it like that but I have and didn't have to > > > configure anything! > > > My login GUI even present you with clickcable icons (pictures) for you > > > to select whatever > > > user / root you want with a single click ( no need to write the actual > > > name ). > > > And for the really lasy and don't-care-about-login-stuff guys you can > > > configure the GUI > > > to do an auto-login! > > > I don't know what else you may require - it will hardly wash your car ... kw washed his car since I have. > > That is exactly what I wanted to hear. I dont doubt there is something > > strange going on at all. I do thank you for confirming what I expected > > linux to be and as soon as I get my "real modem" maybe a sarge update will > > be in order. > > Hoyt > > It has nothing to do with sarge, it works the way he described in woody too. > Try "dpkg-reconfigure kdm" if you haven't already. > > Chris > That is a comfort to know that Your system works like Linux should I must confess that I dont understand the agenda of some. Since I issued apt-get --purge remove kdm. I suspect that wouldnt work will the command be the same for xdm, or maybe it was another command anyway its gone. Regards: Hoyt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
