Adding new session to gdm
Robert Brimhall
rbrimhal at bellsouth.net
Mon Nov 10 04:54:42 UTC 2003
/etc/X11/dm/Sessions
Put it in here and it will appear in gdm. Also, to make it a default
session edit your .Xclients file in ~/ to point to the wm executable.
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 18:07, Jose Romildo Malaquias wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I want to add IceWM as a session to GDM. For that I
> have added the scriopt /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/IceWM:
>
> # ls -l /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/IceWM
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 43 Jun 1 2002 /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/IceWM*
>
> # cat /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/IceWM
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession IceWM
>
> I have also edited the script /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession,
> so that it knows about IceWM:
>
> # grep -A 6 -B 5 IceWM /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
> kde|kde1|kde2)
> exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSHAGENT /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.kde"
> ;;
> # icewm start
> # automatically added by the icewm rpm package.
> IceWM)
> exec -l /bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/icewm-session"
> ;;
> # icewm end
> twm)
> # fall back to twm
> exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSHAGENT /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.twm"
>
> With Red Hat Linux 9, that was enough for IceWM
> to appear as a choice of sessions in GDM, and
> it did worked. Now with Fedora Core 1, it does
> not work. Simply no IceWM session is presented
> in GDM.
>
> What am I missing here? Any clues?
>
> Regards.
>
> Romildo
>
>
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