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Month: February 2011

Re: [trinity-users] synaptic won't run

From: David Hare <davidahare@...>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:20:39 +0000
On 21/02/11 20:16, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 02/21/2011 03:04 PM, Werner Joss wrote:
>>> # update-alternatives --all
>> don't use this (sets defaults for all kind of stuff).
> yeah, too late.. but it was mostly hit return for defaults..
> nice to know stuff anyway!
>
>> try:
>> dpkg-reconfigure xdm
>>
>> this should give you the option to select kdm-trinity as
>> default-displaymanager
>>
>
> I've been doing :
> dpkg-reconfigure gdm
> and selecting kdm-trinity, and it still didn't work.
>
> what is the difference with xdm?
>
> # dpkg-reconfigure xdm
> /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: xdm is not installed
>
The other thing is, run sysv-rc-conf and turn off gdm then it can't start