[K12OSN] Isolating IcewWM as the default session in 4.4

[Sudev Barar]

On 8/25/05, David Trask <dtrask at vcsvikings.org> wrote:
> "Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
> Wednesday, August 24, 2005 at 10:25 PM +0000 wrote:
> >It did get rid of kde but you can still start gnome by choosing GNOME
> >or Default System Sesson. Tried on 4.2.1EL
> >Remember /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/GNOME
> >still exists.

I have edited the file /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession and added the line before
the choice evaluation and commented out the whole section that deals
with choice of desktop as show below. Even if some one changes desktop
or switch desk menu they keep getting IceWM only.
QUOTE:
exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSHAGENT /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.icewm"
# case $# in
# 1)
#    if [ -x /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.$1 ]; then
#       exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSHAGENT /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.$1";
#    fi;
#
#    case $1 in
#    failsafe)
#       exec -l $SHELL -c "xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0"
#       ;;
#    gnome)
#       exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSHAGENT gnome-session"
#       ;;
#    kde|kde1|kde2)
#       exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSHAGENT /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.kde"
#       ;;
#    twm)
#       # fall back to twm
#       exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSHAGENT /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.twm"
#       ;;
#    esac
# esac
ENDQUOTE:


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Sudev Barar
Learning Linux