Different window manager

[Stephan Matthiesen]

Hello,

Am Donnerstag, 29. April 2004 14:04 schrieb Martin Fahrendorf:
> Am Donnerstag, 29. April 2004 13:51 schrieb Stephan Matthiesen:
..
> > question: How do I add an item in the KDE Display Manager (login
> > screen)?
...
> > SessionTypes=default,kde,twm,wmaker,failsafe,gnome
>
> kdm of KDE3.2 no longer uses these line (my experience). Look at
> $KDEDIR/share/apps/kdm/sessions. there are all definitions of available
> windows manager. With TryExec kdm checks whether the window manager is
> available (and adds it into his list). on login kdm starts the Exec
> entry (in the *.desktop files).

Thanks for your help - that pointed me in the right direction. But there is a 
bit more to it: Actually all the *desktop files were there and contained the 
correct Exec and TryExec entries, but that didn't work.

I had to copy the relevant *.desktop files from /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions 
into /usr/share/xsessions and now it works as it should. 

Apparently this directory is now used by both KDM and GDM. The changelog 
3.1.5->3.2. mentions:
KDM: More sophisticated session definitions, common with GDM 
and GDM uses /usr/share/xsessions
(http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2003-September/msg00102.html)

Cheers
Stephan
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