GDM session chooser does not effect login

Andrew Farris fedora at andrewfarris.com
Tue Oct 21 00:31:10 UTC 2003


I'm just begun using Fedora, I updated from RedHat 9 directly to test3,
and this is the first fedora test I've installed.
I'm very pleased so far and see lots of potential here.

I have several issues coming in separate emails but this one is the most
perplexing, and I think it may be related to my upgrade from 9.

I have blackbox and WindowMaker installed as optional Xsessions using
Session scripts in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions which pass session choice to
the main script at /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession.  This worked properly in 9 to
show the sessions in the graphical greeter for gdm, I use multiple
Xservers to login the same user in a blackbox session as well as gnome.

Test 3, does not show any session in gdm greeter other than default,
gnome, kde, and failsafe.  Is there a significant configuration method
change that would cause the old way to fail?

With my current setup, the gdm graphical greeter session chooser has no
effect on which session logs in.  The session that is used is the
default I had set for my users in 9, irregardless of which session I
choose in the greeter (both kde and gnome function, some users were set
to one or the other).

Any thoughts on what causes this?  I realize upgrade from 9 is not
desired at this stage in development, but it needs to be considered
along the way as much as possible.

-- 
Andrew Farris <fedora at andrewfarris.com>





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