XServer Effects on Fedora

Donnie Berkholz spyderous@gentoo.org
Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:35:22 -0500 (EST)


Joel Dice <dicej@mailsnare.net> wrote:
> As for making it your default X server, the easiest way would be to
> write a shell script that starts the server, Gnome, and whatever else
> you need, and run that whenever you want to use X.  Properly integrating
> it with Fedora (getting gdm to use it, etc.) is beyond me, though.
> Maybe somebody else on this list can help you with that.

All GDM requires is a one-line edit of /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf (at least
this is the location in Gentoo) to start Xfbdev or whatever instead of
X/XFree86, along with corresponding command-line options.

Donnie