Bug 153955

Summary:	DISPLAYMANAGER refers to /etc/rc.conf
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	John Izaak Alpert <ialpert>
Component:	Other documents	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	andreamtp+bz, paulmedic555
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description John Izaak Alpert 2006-11-03 11:17:44 UTC

# nano -w /etc/rc.conf
(Edit the following variable)
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"

I'm assuming it should now refer to:
/etc/conf.d/xdm

Because of this post:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3691900.html#3691900

Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-03 11:25:41 UTC

Nope. It's supposed to be /etc/rc.conf. Setting it in rc.conf (which is what you're *supposed to do*) overrides /etc/conf.d/xdm.

Don't believe everything you read on the forums. ;)

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-11-03 12:24:24 UTC

with newer baselayouts we have moved it out of rc.conf and into xdm ... but that version is not stable at the moment

Comment 3 John Izaak Alpert 2006-11-03 12:56:41 UTC

I believe this is as of: "sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.6". Which doesn't appear to be masked for any architecture...

Really it still works for either...

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-11-03 13:15:18 UTC

looks like 1.12.6 was put straight into stable

either way, you are correct ... defining DISPLAYMANAGER in rc.conf will work just as well as conf.d/xdm

Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-11-04 02:00:20 UTC

*** Bug 154000 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***