Adding window manager in GDM.

Rogelio Nodal rnodal at pegasus.rutgers.edu
Thu Aug 18 16:11:42 UTC 2005


albi at scii.nl wrote:

>On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:14:17 -0400
>Rogelio Nodal <rnodal at pegasus.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>
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>>    I installed larswm and I would like to know how to add it to GDM
>>    so 
>>I can start it from GDM. Which file do I have to edit? Thanks a lot
>>for  your time.
>>    
>>
>
>normally you would edit /etc/gdm/Sessions but that file has gone, what
>you can do as a quick solution is to create a ~/.xsession file and put
>this in :
>
>exec larswm
>
>and then restart gdm and if all is well (.xsession needs to be
>executable ?) then you have a new choice "Xsession" or something
>
>
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I tried that but it did not work. But thanks a lot I really thank you 
for your time.

> You need to create a .desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions. Look at 
> existing .desktop files in there for an example.
> -- Dennis K.

Ok, I did that and it worked, now the background does not match the 
color of the configuration file. I see if I can figuer that one out. 
Thanks a lot for your help.

-R
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