Graphical Boot Sessions

Daniel Stonier snorri_dj at operamail.com
Tue Mar 9 01:08:48 UTC 2004


No idea, my gnome.desktop is the same and it works fine - you sure 
gnome-session is on your computer?

Regards,
Daniel Stonier

On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 22:08:57 +0530, Kaustubh Ghosh 
<meetkaustubhghosh at vsnl.net> wrote:

>
> Thanks  very much for your help.
> My windows Maker is running!I did as you said.
> But I still cannot change to GNOME from outside.If I choose it I just 
> log on
> to KDE,my default desktop.My gnome.desktop file has 'Exec=gnome-session'
> Is it correct?I tried to change it to nautilus,with no effect.Can you 
> help me
> on this.
>
>> Daniel Stonier
>> <snorri_dj at operamail.com>wrote:
>> My enlightenment.desktop file, attached this time!
>
>> On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 09:32:36 +1000, Daniel Stonier
>> <snorri_dj at operamail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Redhat moved its display manager info to a generic spot with fedora in
>> /etc/X11/dm. Im using enlightenment and also running xscreensaver when I
>> start up e and this is my setup which should be similar to yours.
>>
>> Created an enlightenment.desktop file and added it to /etc/X11/dm (see
>> attached file). This has a line "Exec = Custom". You could instead
>> actually put your executable for starting up windowmaker here (look at
>> the other .desktop files in this directory). However when it is set to
>> custom it will then go dig up your ~/.Xclients file and run what you
>> have there.
>>
>> My .Xclients file looks like this:
>>
>> ############## Start of .Xclients file ######################
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver -no-splash -display :0 &
>> exec /usr/bin/enlightenment
>>
>> ############### End of .Xclients file #######################
>>
>> Put an ampersand after everything except windowmaker - it needs to run
>> in the foreground until you close it down.
>>
>> Best of luck,
>> Daniel Stonier
>>
>> On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 19:39:47 +0530, Kaustubh Ghosh
>> <meetkaustubhghosh at vsnl.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me how to add sessions in Fedora i.e. the files the
>>> graphical
>>> session changer relies upon & how to edit them.
>>> I am not getting some of my installed desktops in the graphical session
>>> list(eg. WindowsMaker present from the time I used Redhat 8 before
>>> upgrade).
>>> I am also not being able to interchange between GNOME and KDE from the
>>> graphical sessions manager(I can choose any of them as default desktop
>>> though
>>> and interchange the default desktop from "Desktop switching tool" after
>>> logging in.). I can of course choose to any of the other alternative
>>> desktops
>>> displayed in "sessions" menu in the graphical login screen.
>>>
>>> All is perfect in text mode login.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
>> Daniel Stonier
>> email:snorri_dj at operamail.com
>> http://members.optusnet.com.au/stonierd/
>> ------------BAPmIj5pAH4XRpgYyRIIoc
>> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=enlightenment.desktop
>> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=enlightenment.desktop
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>>
>> [Desktop Entry]
>> Encoding=UTF-8
>> Name=Enlightenment
>> # Setting this as custom causes it to go and run your .Xclients file. 
>> Have
>> inserted the
>> # necessary loadup commands within .Xclients-default for both e and
>> xscreensaver.
>> Exec=custom
>> #Exec=/usr/bin/enlightenment
>> # no icon yet, only the top three are currently used
>> Comment=This session logs you into Enlightenment
>> Icon=
>> Type=Application
>
>



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