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

[vincent at cojot.name]

Hi everyone,

For the record, i'd like to say that I found a workaround...
I Added this file:
# cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"

This effectively drops the simple gdm greeter and switches to the kdm 
greeter which allows one to select a different X Session.. Problem solved.

So in order to allow choosing a different Xsession (namely 
/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/OpenWin ), I had to drop gdm and use kdm, thereby 
introducing a dependency upon KDE (sigh).

I'm a little bit disappointed.. is there no other (GDM) way to do that?

Best regards,

Vincent

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, vincent at cojot.name wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Philip Durbin wrote:
>
>>> Under RHEL4/5, it was just a matter of adding 
>>> stuff under /etc/X11/* as in:
>>> /etc/X11/dm/Sessions/OpenWindows.desktop
>>> /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/OpenWin
>> 
>> For example: 
>> /usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop
>> 
>> Phil
>> 
>
> Hi Phil,