Different window manager

[James Richard Tyrer]

Stephan Matthiesen wrote:
> 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)

The location is also configurable in 'kdmrc':

[X-*-Core]

SessionsDirs=/usr/share/config/kdm/sessions

This can be a path with more than one directory.

--
JRT

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