KDM :-(

[James Richard Tyrer]

Cris Amon Caminha da Rocha wrote:
> Please, anybody knows how to take session type off at KDE 3.2.2

According to: "kdebase/kdm/README"

Configuring session types
-------------------------

The way session types are configured changed drastically in KDE 3.2.
Session types are now represented by .desktop files in appropriate locations.
The format of the .desktop files is (not yet) defined in the FreeDesktop.org
desktop entry spec. Differences to "standard" .desktop files are:
- the Type is fixed to XSession and can be omitted
- the Encoding is fixed to UTF-8 and can be omitted
- the Exec field will be passed to "eval exec" in a bourne shell; no macro
   expansion is performed on it. "default", "custom" and "failsafe" are magic
   constants that cause special actions.
- Name, Comment, TryExec and Hidden are supported
- the remaining keys have no meaning currently
Session types are internally identified by filename (without extension);
that's what will be saved to ~/.dmrc and what DESKTOP_SESSION will be set to.
For every magic Exec constant a session type of the same name exists.

Unless your system is configured differently already, you should create a
directory ${kde_confdir}/kdm/sessions and add this to kdmrc:

[X-*-Core]
SessionsDirs=${kde_confdir}/kdm/sessions,${kde_datadir}/kdm/sessions

(Note that you must use actual paths instead of variables, see the section
about KDM's file system layout.)
Do any changes only in the config directory - any changes in the data
directory will be lost after the next KDE update.

To override a session type, copy the .desktop file from the data dir to the
config dir and edit it at will. Removing the shipped session types can be
accomplished by "shadowing" them with .desktop files containing Hidden=true.
For the magic session types no .desktop files exist by default, but KDM
pretends they would, so you can override them like any other type.
I guess you already know how to add a new session type by now. ;-)

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So, the session types: "default", "custom" and "failsafe" can NOT be removed. 
Other session types can be removed by deleting the appropriate 'desktop' file 
from the directories listed in the: "SessionDirs" path in the: "kdmrc" file.

--
JRT

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