[Techtalk] SuSE Irritant

Liz Young liz at kandew.net
Mon Apr 28 19:20:12 EST 2003


Hi Phil,

On Monday 28 April 2003 5:38 pm, Phil Savoie wrote:
> I have been using SuSE 8.0 for awhile now and have noticed an
> irritating feature I would love to trn off but don't know how.  It's
> that darned xconsole.  Would anyone happen to know how to turn off
> that thing?

Check the tail of the /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup file.  There should be a 
couple/few lines similar to this:
#
# Do not start xconsole for kdm
#
/sbin/checkproc -p /var/run/kdm.pid /opt/kde3/bin/kdm  && exit 0

Is the /sbin... line commented out?  If yes, try removing the #, and log 
out/in.

--
Liz



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