KDM :-(

[Cris Amon Caminha da Rocha]

Thanks for all. Is there another desktop manager more interesting,
beautiful and "idiot-proof" that KDM.

Thanks


> 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. ;-)
>
> ---------------
>
> 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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