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Thursday, April 13th 2006, 6:40pm

Author: Spurred_On

RE: Only choice on logout is Logout or Cancel

Howdy Bram, Thanks for helping me with the syntax. I changed DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" to ="KDM". It didn't seem to help, though. Red Hat documentation shows the following image as the only KDE GUI logout screen, which is exactly what I see when I log out (where "user" is replaced by the user's name between quotes). This makes me think the porblem is specific to Red Hat/Fedora. I've decided to wait until I install the new Fedora Core 5 with the latest version of KDE and then work on the problem. I'm ...

Wednesday, April 12th 2006, 12:31am

Author: Spurred_On

RE: Only choice on logout is Logout or Cancel

Howdy Bram Quoted KDE needs KDM running to offer you the shutdown/reboot options, which appears not to be running on your system since you login from the console. That's what I kinda thought. But what I don't understand is why I can log into a Gnome user session from the console and when I log out it will pop up the multiple-choice logout splash screen, but when I log into a KDE session it will not. Is there a syntax or command I can use from the console that will load KDM when I start a session...

Tuesday, April 11th 2006, 6:09pm

Author: Spurred_On

Only choice on logout is Logout or Cancel

Howdy . . . When I click on the logout button a very small screen pops up asking "end session for 'root' " with the only choices being Logout or Cancel. There is no option to shut down, restart, or save session. I have read other posts about logout problems and have altered my /etc/sysconfig/desktop file to read DESKTOP="KDE" DESKTOPMANAGER="KDE" [code:1] DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" [/code:1] None of those addtions have helped, and I'm note sure of the proper format for those commands, or if they are s...