Using gdm instead of dtlogin on Nevada

15 Aug 2005 Conor’s techie blog

Originally published on csvensson.blogspot.com. View saved original ↗

Having finally got Nevada running on my laptop, to get gdm running instead of the usual standard dtlogin screen, the gdm-login service has to be enabled, which isn't immediately obvious. Laurent Blume cleared this one up.

From the console, disable dtlogin,

/etc/init.d/dtlogin stop
/usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -d
svcadm enable gdm2-login && exit

If you want to be able to shutdown the box from the gdm menu, edit the file
/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf first, and uncomment the following lines:

RebootCommand=/sbin/init 6
HaltCommand=/sbin/init 5

Then you can customise your gdm with some of the OpenSolaris images posted on Chandan's blog here

Cite this post

Conor Svensson (15 August 2005). Using gdm instead of dtlogin on Nevada. https://conorsvensson.com/archive/blogspot/using-gdm-instead-of-dtlogin-on-nevada/

BibTeX

@misc{svensson2005-using-gdm-instead-of-dtlogin-on-nevada,
  author = {Conor Svensson},
  title = {{Using gdm instead of dtlogin on Nevada}},
  year = {2005},
  month = aug,
  url = {https://conorsvensson.com/archive/blogspot/using-gdm-instead-of-dtlogin-on-nevada/}
}