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

[vincent at cojot.name]

Hi Tom,

Very interesting find indeed. BTW, would you mind sharing these custom 
sessions (especially the one with the real openssh agent)?

So, unless I'm mistaken, in order to summarize:

- if GDM is installed, the only proper way to get a session chooser is to 
create /etc/sysconfig/desktop and switch to the KDE greeter.

- if GDM isn't installed, you get a session chooser by default (which 
one?, btw).

To me, it looks like a typical case of 'More is less' where a 
feature-extended system (full gdm) gives less 'features'. :) Not RedHat's 
fault but bothering nonetheless..

my 2c,

Vincent

On Mon, 21 May 2012, Tom G. Christensen wrote:

> On my RHEL6 system there is no /etc/X11/gdm directory, instead GDM sessions 
> are defined in /usr/share/xsessions.
>
> I've used it to create a couple of custom sessions, one that executes 
> ~/.Xclients like it was done in previous RHEL releases, and one that runs the 
> gnome-session using the real openssh agent instead of using the poor 
> substitute provided by gnome-keyring.
>
> -tgc