solution: getting KDM to display the chooser plus potential problem for those installing KDE3

[Marvin GodfatherofSoul Bellamy]

<sigh>  This isn't working as well as I thought.  If I get this figured 
out, I'll post an update.  Back to the drawing board...

Marvin GodfatherofSoul Bellamy wrote:

> I wanted to get KDM to display a list of XDMCP hosts willing to export 
> their displays.  A very simple GUI is presented to the user listing 
> hosts identified by a broadcast for willing hosts.  There is 
> practically NO documentation explaining how to get this done with KDM, 
> but tons of people asking the same question.  Anyway, the solution was 
> to edit the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file.  There should be a call to X 
> next to a 0:localhost display indication.  You need to add the option 
> -indirect <xdmcp.host.to.do.your.broadcast>.  Make sure you add this 
> option FIRST to ensure that X doesn't treat the your parameter as a 
> command-line argument.  I've been battling with Mandrake 8.2 on this 
> one for about 3 weeks, and I can't believe that a solution was nowhere 
> to be found :(
>
> Also, if you installed KDM from RPMs as I did, you could have a path 
> problem.  KDE2 installs its executables in /usr/bin while KDE3 uses 
> its own directory.  You want to make sure that your installation is 
> calling the correct kdm version.  The solution I used was to edit 
> /etc/X11/prefdm and make sure that the KDE3 executables directory is 
> prepended to the PATH variable in that file.
>
> If you need more clarification, feel free to contact me.  I just 
> figured this out last night, so I haven't yet reported the solution to 
> any other forums.
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