[rhelv6-list] Proper way to add to RHEL6's GDM?

[Hugh Brown]

On 08/12/2011 10:37 AM, vincent at cojot.name wrote:
>
> Hi Hugh,
>
> Well then I wonder if I should file a bug against that GDM since I
> already had something similar on my test RHEL6.1 system:
>
> [root at rh6x64 xsessions]# pwd
> /usr/share/xsessions
>
> [root at rh6x64 xsessions]# cat OpenWindows.desktop
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Type=XSession
> Exec=/usr/openwin/bin/openwin
> TryExec=/usr/openwin/bin/openwin
> Name=OpenWindows
> Comment=The OpenWindows Desktop
>
> But anyway I didn't see any place in the GDM greeter where to pick a
> different session that the default..
>
> Vincent


Does the gdm user have read access to the file? It's also possible that 
update-desktop-database may have to be run (though I don't know if it 
touches the desktop files in that directory).

Hugh