Re: gdm background picture missing

2010-04-09 Thread Jian Jun Wang
this solution worked, although it took me a lot of time to download packages, thank you so much. On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jian Jun Wang wrote: > >> Any suggestion on stepsto solve the problem? >> > > Follow the steps in /usr/port

Re: gdm background picture missing

2010-04-08 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jian Jun Wang wrote: Any suggestion on stepsto solve the problem? Follow the steps in /usr/ports/UPDATING when you are updating ports. Another option would be to pkg_delete * and install everything again from ports. There are good ins

Re: gdm background picture missing

2010-04-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jian Jun Wang wrote: > Any suggestion on stepsto solve the problem? > Follow the steps in /usr/ports/UPDATING when you are updating ports. Another option would be to pkg_delete * and install everything again from ports. There are good instructions for this in th

Re: gdm won't start at 7.2

2009-05-25 Thread mct
Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I've installed from scratch a i386 7.2 machine , when I try to start gdm the machine display the login screen with "other" written on it but it is totally hanged , even the mouse. Any info ? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: GDM users list

2009-05-10 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: FWIW, the gdm user list applet seems to be having a few problems in 8.0-CURRENT too. It is auto-enabled when procfs(5) is mounted at `/proc' but it only shows `other' a few dozen times on my laptop, and clicking on them sometimes crashes gdm. I'm s

Re: GDM users list

2009-05-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 11 May 2009 01:07:10 +0200 (CEST), Marco Beishuizen wrote: > When I use GDM for logging in, the only possible users I can choose > from are the "logcheck system account" and "other", but not my regular > user account. Why is that? FWIW, the gdm user list applet seems to be having a few p

Re: gdm wont start

2009-02-09 Thread cwt
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:45:30PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: Hiya I upgraded to 7.1 and did a portupgrade and I think I broke something and for the likes of me .. I dont know how to fix this. I havnt changed my /etc/rc.conf, and it all looks the same / untouched.

Re: gdm wont start

2009-02-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:45:30PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > Hiya > > I upgraded to 7.1 and did a portupgrade and I think I broke something > and for the likes of me .. I dont know how to fix this. > > I havnt changed my /etc/rc.conf, and it all looks the same / untouched. > > When ever I res

Re: GDM login without using a password

2008-11-04 Thread Roey Dror
> > Is there any other pam module which can supply a passwordless login? > maybe pam_guest? > I figured it out. Adding this line: authsufficient pam_guest.soguests=username nopass to /etc/pam.d/gdm did the trick. -- Roey _

Re: GDM login without using a password

2008-11-04 Thread Roey Dror
> > OK the pam stuff that is talked about online is found in /etc/pam.d/gdm. > I have seen a few suggestions to change the auth to optional instead of > required. However there would be nothing to stop some one logging in as > root through gdm. > Is there any other pam module which can supply a p

Re: GDM login without using a password

2008-11-04 Thread Craig Butler
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:02 +0200, Roey Dror wrote: > I've searched around the internet for a way to allow a user to login > into GDM without using a password. > I know that GDM has an automatic login feature, but that's not what I'm > looking. > I really do not wish to create a user with an emp

Re: GDM login without using a password

2008-11-04 Thread Roey Dror
> AFAIK the automatic login feature allows you to nominate a user to > automatically log in as... it doesn't ask for the password but I think > one can be set (so it doesn't need to be empty). As I said, the automatic login feature is not what I'm looking for. I need to set up more than one user t

Re: GDM login without using a password

2008-11-04 Thread Craig Butler
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:32 +0200, Roey Dror wrote: > > AFAIK the automatic login feature allows you to nominate a user to > > automatically log in as... it doesn't ask for the password but I think > > one can be set (so it doesn't need to be empty). > > As I said, the automatic login feature is n

Re: gdm + xdmcp

2008-03-01 Thread clemens fischer
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:20:40 +0530 Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > I personally do not run gdm or kdm. So I would not know how to get > this working but I *think* you already picked the right file. The one > you quoted in your last mail. I think the key lies there. You have to > modify it and restart

Re: gdm + xdmcp

2008-02-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 07:56:29 Mar 01, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > How am I supposed to do that? I believe it's up to gdm to open the port > it should be listening on. Just like Xorg did. If you mean I should > allow access to this port in the firewall, I must say I've not > (explicitly) enabled one on this system becau

Re: gdm + xdmcp

2008-02-29 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 10:22:29 +0530 Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry, I forgot to mention that. nmap gives: > > > > PORTSTATE SERVICE > > 177/udp closed xdmcp > > 6000/tcp open X11 > > > > Actually I think the latter is not required, but I'll let > > everything be op

Re: gdm + xdmcp

2008-02-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 04:37:58 Mar 01, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Indeed. It is not my intention to use XDMCP like that (although it has > some advantages in some cases), but since the remote host wasn't on the > local XDMCP list I tried a more direct approach. > Okay. > Sorry, I forgot to mention that. nmap gives: >

Re: gdm + xdmcp

2008-02-29 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 06:31:39 +0530 Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01:10:06 Mar 01, Daniel Iliev wrote: == snip == > > I started gdmsetup on the FreeBSD system and enabled "Remote > > Login" (XDMCP). It was followed by a "gdm-restart". No error > > messages, everything seems

Re: gdm + xdmcp

2008-02-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 01:10:06 Mar 01, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Hi, people > > > I installed FreeBSD using the "7.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso" CD image. > After I installed Gnome (pkg_add -r gnome2), I was able to start it on > the FreeBSD and show it on my GNU/Linux workstation like this: > > 1) (Xnest :1 &) ; termi

Re: gdm-binary: Unable to connect to socket: hostname nor servname provided (SOLVED)

2007-11-21 Thread Laszlo Nagy
The problem was that gdm was compiled with IPv6 support but the kernel wasn't. This should not cause the gdm process to freeze and only exit with "kill -9" right? Thanks, Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: gdm-binary: Unable to connect to socket: hostname nor servname provided

2007-11-21 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi All, Do you have any idea what is the problem with my settings? gdm places this message in /var/log/messages: Here is another test: cassiopeia# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm start Starting gdm. gdm-binary[86504]: DEBUG: Attempting to parse key string: daemon/ServAuthDir=/va

Re: gdm automatic login

2007-01-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Alla Gofman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Joe! > > > > I followed the suggestion that you gave in following link about gdm > automatic login > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-August/054439. > html > > and my portable computer also hangs on login screen after I

Re: gdm-autologin not working properly

2006-12-03 Thread trip
The fingers of Lars Udo typed on 03/12/06 12:08: > Hello folks. > > I'v set up gdm-autologin at /etc/pam.d/ and done everything as told in faq > ( http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q23 ) > > It asks for user to pass in, is this normal behavior.. because i expected > that when i fire up

Re: GDM sessions....

2006-04-26 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:13:02 -0500 Eric Schuele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah... that's why I started out with XDM. However, after some time, > and loading apps I was interested in, I turned around and noticed I was > only missing two GDM dependencies anyway... so I figured a little eye >

Re: GDM sessions....

2006-04-24 Thread Eric Schuele
Norberto Meijome wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:35:21 -0500 Eric Schuele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Though I am starting to experiment with various display managers. Can you tell me what it is you like (and dislike) about wdm (i've not heard much about wdm)? port = x11/wdm Very few dependen

Re: GDM sessions.... [Solved]

2006-04-24 Thread Eric Schuele
Joseph Vella wrote: On Sunday 23 April 2006 19:35, Eric Schuele wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:02:53 -0500 Eric Schuele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have GDM installed and working. I *do not* have gnome installed. I was hoping GDM would do as XDM and just run my .xses

Re: GDM sessions....

2006-04-23 Thread Joseph Vella
On Sunday 23 April 2006 19:35, Eric Schuele wrote: > Norberto Meijome wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:02:53 -0500 > > Eric Schuele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I have GDM installed and working. I *do not* have gnome installed. I > >> was hoping GDM would do as XDM and just run my .xses

Re: GDM sessions....

2006-04-23 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:35:21 -0500 Eric Schuele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Though I am starting to experiment with various display managers. Can > you tell me what it is you like (and dislike) about wdm (i've not heard > much about wdm)? port = x11/wdm Very few dependencies (in particular,

Re: GDM sessions....

2006-04-23 Thread Eric Schuele
Norberto Meijome wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:02:53 -0500 Eric Schuele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have GDM installed and working. I *do not* have gnome installed. I was hoping GDM would do as XDM and just run my .xsession. But it does not. I would simply like it to be an XDM replacement

Re: GDM sessions....

2006-04-23 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:02:53 -0500 Eric Schuele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have GDM installed and working. I *do not* have gnome installed. I > was hoping GDM would do as XDM and just run my .xsession. But it does > not. I would simply like it to be an XDM replacement. I I use wdm inst

Re: GDM sessions....

2006-04-23 Thread Eric Schuele
Pete Slagle wrote: Eric Schuele wrote: I have GDM installed and working. I *do not* have gnome installed. I was hoping GDM would do as XDM and just run my .xsession. But it does not. I would simply like it to be an XDM replacement. I use KDM for this. Configuration is quite flexible.

Re: GDM sessions....

2006-04-23 Thread Pete Slagle
Eric Schuele wrote: I have GDM installed and working. I *do not* have gnome installed. I was hoping GDM would do as XDM and just run my .xsession. But it does not. I would simply like it to be an XDM replacement. I use KDM for this. Configuration is quite flexible. _

Re: gdm starting without keyboard

2005-10-21 Thread Frederico Franzosi
It worked out, but I had to "strangely" disable gdm at /etc/rc.conf, do you have any idea on this?? On 17 Oct 2005 10:39:44 +0300, Vincent Ngundi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try: > > ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/sbin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > -- > >

Re: gdm starting without keyboard

2005-10-17 Thread Vincent Ngundi
Try: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/sbin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure -- Vincent. On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 23:29, Frederico Franzosi wrote: > I know this is already a known issue, but it seems my problem is kinda > different. The trouble is: when I enable g

Re: gdm question.

2005-08-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 01:33:33PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Gary Kline wrote: > | To the Gnome-savvy out there, > | > | About a week ago I had reason to reboot this server. I > | had set the gdm_enable variable to ="YES" and

Re: gdm question.

2005-08-26 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Kline wrote: | To the Gnome-savvy out there, | | About a week ago I had reason to reboot this server. I | had set the gdm_enable variable to ="YES" and when things | came up again, *voila*, I logged into my gdk account an

Re: GDM startup problem

2004-11-09 Thread Guillermo García-Rojas
Reinstall and check the messages, you need to patch it. On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:07:43 +0100, Niklas Lundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having some problems with GDM. It seems to restart itself a couple > of times before it hangs, all without showing any dialog. It doesn't > matt

Re: gdm/kdm and synergy

2004-09-02 Thread Dee Gaans
I have a similar setup, FreeBSD, Fedora and a win2k box.. My Fedora is a client without a mout and keyboard.. I have a file with the command "synergyc -n IP_address_of_Client/Fedora IP_address_of_Synergy_Server Move this file into your init.d directory and then make a link to your systems normal

Re: gdm automatic login

2004-08-02 Thread Chris Radlinski
That did it. Thanks. Chris Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 23:40, Chris Radlinski wrote: I'm running Gnome 2.4 on 5.2.1-RELEASE. I've configured gdm to run at boot time and would like it to automatically log me in. However, it always prompts me for a password. Scanning the a

Re: gdm automatic login

2004-08-02 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 23:40, Chris Radlinski wrote: > I'm running Gnome 2.4 on 5.2.1-RELEASE. I've configured gdm to run at > boot time and would like it to automatically log me in. However, it > always prompts me for a password. Scanning the archives, I saw that > others suggested copying /e

Re: gdm+xfce4

2004-01-09 Thread Adam Bozanich
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Monah Baki wrote: > Hi all, I'm running freebsd 5.1, and trying to use gdm login manager and xfce4. At > the login > username, if I login as root or a normal user, I get a SESSION MENU dialog box > CHOOSESESSIONLISTWIDGET and I can only choose 2 options DEFAULT/FAIL SAFE and

RE: gdm doesn't allow username input

2004-01-07 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 16:42, Mark Zytkovicz wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 16:08, Mark Zytkovicz wrote: > > > This is a strange one. > > > > > > I've just finished a massive port upgrade on 5.0-release. > > > I logged out of gnome (probably shouldn't have even > > > been there, but whatever) and

RE: gdm doesn't allow username input

2004-01-07 Thread Mark Zytkovicz
> On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 16:08, Mark Zytkovicz wrote: > > This is a strange one. > > > > I've just finished a massive port upgrade on 5.0-release. > > I logged out of gnome (probably shouldn't have even > > been there, but whatever) and it noted that the versions > > of gdm were different, restart

Re: gdm doesn't allow username input

2004-01-07 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 16:08, Mark Zytkovicz wrote: > This is a strange one. > > I've just finished a massive port upgrade on 5.0-release. > I logged out of gnome (probably shouldn't have even > been there, but whatever) and it noted that the versions > of gdm were different, restart gdm or reboot.

Re: gdm crashes on 5.1

2003-12-23 Thread Jakob Breivik Grimstveit
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 18:09, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > Did you read the Known Issues section at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome as > well as the pkg-message from gdm? Evidently not :-). Thank you for pointing it out for me, it will now probably work without any further problems. -- Jakob Breivik

Re: gdm crashes on 5.1

2003-12-23 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 08:12, Jakob Breivik Grimstveit wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 14:08, Jakob Breivik Grimstveit wrote: > > > When booting system, it crashes after blinking several times just before > > showing login screen (gray gui is being shown a little second). > > Ah, and gdm config is

Re: gdm crashes on 5.1

2003-12-23 Thread Jakob Breivik Grimstveit
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 14:08, Jakob Breivik Grimstveit wrote: > When booting system, it crashes after blinking several times just before > showing login screen (gray gui is being shown a little second). Ah, and gdm config is here: http://www.starshipping.com/~jakobbg/gdm.conf> -- Jakob Breivik G

Re: gdm

2003-11-28 Thread Martin Moeller
* Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031128 11:33]: > I just installed FreeBSD 4.9, and am trying to setup GDM. At first, gdm > wouldn't run because it complained about the gdm user not existing. I > fixed that by created the gdm user and the gdm group. Now, gdm runs > fine, but I cannot find

Re: gdm

2003-11-28 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Aaron Walker: > Now, gdm runs fine, but I cannot find the config file for gdm, which > should be in /etc/X11/gdm, but there is no such directory. Is this > config file located elsewhere by default in FreeBSD? The GDM config file is located at /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf Cheers, -- Jean-

Re: GDM - configured as per the documentation but stil chrashes - FreeBSD 4. 9 an d 5.1

2003-11-17 Thread martin . clausen
Thanks for the input. Actually I got it working on 4.9 by renaming gdm.sh to z_gdm.sh. It seems that gdm has to be the last thing program to launch at boot time. Regards, Martin Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I cannot get GDM2 to work on neither 4.

Re: GDM - configured as per the documentation but stil chrashes - FreeBSD 4.9 an d 5.1

2003-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I cannot get GDM2 to work on neither 4.9(nor 5.1.) > > GDM chrashes at boot time no matter what I do. > > I use the gnome2-2.4.0 package. I have tried to install it at install time(which > results in the gdm users not being created), installed it afterwards and compi

Re: gdm crashes

2003-10-13 Thread Monah Baki
Yes I did copy factory-gdm.conf over the current gdm.conf. Same problem. Thank you On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 09:06, Monah Baki wrote: Hi all, I upgraded my freebsd 5.1 ports tree, so I can install gnome 2.4. When everything was installed, I tried running as root gdm, I got the following error: g

Re: GDM Greeter cores on FreeBSD

2003-09-10 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, George wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 07:36:01AM +0900, Alexander Nedotsukov wrote: > > As a quick olution apply this in to libart_lgpl2. > > The offending asserts have been commented out pending further review and > fixage later. The release that does this is 2.3.16 of lib

Re: GDM Greeter cores on FreeBSD

2003-09-10 Thread George
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 07:36:01AM +0900, Alexander Nedotsukov wrote: > As a quick olution apply this in to libart_lgpl2. The offending asserts have been commented out pending further review and fixage later. The release that does this is 2.3.16 of libart_lgpl (nothing else was changed). Note th

Re: GDM Greeter cores on FreeBSD

2003-09-07 Thread Alexander Nedotsukov
Kees Jan Koster wrote: Dear All, I use the Gnome GDM2 greeter in graphical mode, but recent versions of it dump core (signal 6). This happens on both machines that I use it on. One is a desktop and the other is a laptop, so I dounbt it is a hardware issue. My OS is FreeBSD-stable, cvsupped as of

Re: GDM Greeter cores on FreeBSD

2003-09-07 Thread Glenn Johnson
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:18:20PM +0200, Kees Jan Koster wrote: > Dear All, > > I use the Gnome GDM2 greeter in graphical mode, but recent versions of > it dump core (signal 6). This happens on both machines that I use it > on. One is a desktop and the other is a laptop, so I dounbt it is a > ha

Re: GDM Greeter cores on FreeBSD

2003-09-07 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Kees Jan Koster wrote: > Dear All, > > I use the Gnome GDM2 greeter in graphical mode, but recent versions of > it dump core (signal 6). This happens on both machines that I use it on. > One is a desktop and the other is a laptop, so I dounbt it is a hardware > issue. > > My OS

Re: gdm crash!

2003-08-14 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 19:15, Peng Zhang wrote: > Hi > > Does somebody meet the similar thing? I have always met this error: > Aug 10 18:49:41 pzhang /kernel: pid 45272 (XFree86), uid 0: exited on sig > nal 6 (core dumped) > Aug 10 18:49:41 pzhang gdm[45271]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X > e

Re: gdm crash!

2003-08-14 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Peng Zhang wrote: > Hi > > Does somebody meet the similar thing? I have always met this error: > Aug 10 18:49:41 pzhang /kernel: pid 45272 (XFree86), uid 0: exited on sig > nal 6 (core dumped) > Aug 10 18:49:41 pzhang gdm[45271]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X > error - R

Re: gdm crash!

2003-08-14 Thread Zhang, Peng
This thing happened again. The same error in the console. I put my log file here. Can you have a look on it? Thanks! XFree86.0.log XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.8 i386 [ELF] Build Date: 31 July

Re: GDM question - anyone got it to work?

2002-12-19 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 23:50, Daniel Schrock wrote: > Dmitrii PapaGeorgio wrote: > > Running FreeBSD 4.7 - I configured etc/ttys to point to GDM but the > > screen says it can't find the config file when it first boots. Am I > > missing something here? > > > > Thanks- > > > > yea, don't use /et

Re: GDM question - anyone got it to work?

2002-12-19 Thread Daniel Schrock
Dmitrii PapaGeorgio wrote: Running FreeBSD 4.7 - I configured etc/ttys to point to GDM but the screen says it can't find the config file when it first boots. Am I missing something here? Thanks- yea, don't use /etc/ttys for this. cd /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d cp gdm.sh.sample gdm.sh ls -la #verify

Re: gdm at boot up

2002-09-29 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 14:33, cfldeneme cfldeneme wrote: > How can i start gdm at boot up? When you install the port, the pkg-message gives you instructions on how to do this. For gdm 1, you can add en entry to /etc/ttys to start it (basically replace xdm with gdm in ttys). For gdm2, you nee

Re: GDM

2002-07-17 Thread Steve Wingate
On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 23:21, Jonathan Chen wrote: > [Please do not remove Cc: freebsd-questions] > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:55:31AM +0530, Akthar Hussain wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > > > Thanks for your reply. > > > > But why a normal user can able to start GDM withou loging as root. > > >

Re: GDM

2002-07-16 Thread Jonathan Chen
[Please do not remove Cc: freebsd-questions] On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:55:31AM +0530, Akthar Hussain wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > Thanks for your reply. > > But why a normal user can able to start GDM withou loging as root. > > since a normal user able to start GDM, i thought KDM also possible.