I was asked by an user about this, and after looking it up, the documentation still refers to a pre-modularised Xorg configuration; as currently the default is modular Xorg, it should be updated. In section 3, "Graphical Login" it should tell the user first to install kdm itself (as they might not have it, people think that using kdebase-startkde is enough): emerge --noreplace kdm that will bring in xdm as a dependency if needed. Then the file to edit is now /etc/conf.d/xdm rather than /etc/rc.conf. Thanks, Diego
I'll handle this. Note, though, that baselayout still wants the displaymanager variable set in rc.conf. Yes, you can use either rc.conf or conf.d/xdm (rc.conf will override conf.d/xdm), but plenty of other documentation (i.e. installed to the system, not just on gentoo.org) still says rc.conf. I'd prefer to keep it this way, as we've been doing, on the gentoo.org docs until rc.conf is completely deprecated. Regarding the KDM emerge itself, there was a lot of "if needed" stuff in your report -- do we need to worry about specific versions that this applies to, or just add the emerge --noreplace step as-is?
emerge --noreplace kde-base/kdm is enough. And as I said on irc, I'd rather have everything switched to conf.d/xdm instead of having everything on rc.conf forever to avoid inconsistency :)
Might as well change all the references. I spoke with UberLord on IRC about this, and it might as well be /etc/conf.d/xdm, as that's what all updates following an initial 2006.1 installation will be wanting to use by default, even though you can still override that file with the setting in rc.conf.
Changed all rc.conf references to conf.d/xdm in the graphical desktop guides. Also, I added the emerge --noreplace kdm in a subsequent commit; forgot to get that in the initial revbump for conf.d/xdm, sorry. It's all fixed now. :) Thanks for reporting.
