newbie: remastering to get passwords and gui login

I've made my own remaster with gnome2.4 and trying to get XCFE4 (which won't boot for me) and a few other packages installed. I would like a better way to switch to the desktops than rebooting each time.
I'd like to get the login gui back with the list of window managers and users. Is there a setting I need to change (runlevel, autologin, or another script)?
I'd also like to get passwords back. How do I go about doing that?

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Originally Posted by freeballer

I would like a better way to switch to the desktops than rebooting each time.
I'd like to get the login gui back with the list of window managers and users. Is there a setting I need to change (runlevel, autologin, or another script)?
I'd also like to get passwords back. How do I go about doing that?

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If you are using KDM as your window manager, you should only have to logout and you should be brought back to the login page. Alternately you can just hit ctrl+alt+backspace which should kill X and bring you back to the KDM login.

Adam

save your configuration and then modify the knoppix.sh file so that it creates links in rc2.d through rc5.d with /etc/init.d/kdm as S19kdm. When you boot with "knoppix myconfig=scan" the knoppix.sh will be run and the added script commands will cause the kdm manager to be run on bootup.

I recently did this after also enabling NIS and kdm shows up with all the NIS login IDs too. Pretty cool. There might be a gdm you could use instead of kdm and as far as window managers go, you'll have to mess with the kdm/gdm init scripts to be sure your particular window managers are available and add code/script to knoppix.sh to restore those files which you might need to put on a floppy if you don't have accessable HD space.

thanks I will try that