Adding new session to gdm

[Robert Brimhall]

/etc/X11/dm/Sessions

Put it in here and it will appear in gdm. Also, to make it a default
session edit your .Xclients file in ~/ to point to the wm executable.


On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 18:07, Jose Romildo Malaquias wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I want to add IceWM as a session to GDM. For that I
> have added the scriopt /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/IceWM:
> 
> # ls -l /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/IceWM
> -rwxrwxr-x    1 root     root           43 Jun  1  2002 /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/IceWM*
> 
> # cat /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/IceWM
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession IceWM
> 
> I have also edited the script /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession,
> so that it knows about IceWM:
> 
> # grep -A 6 -B 5 IceWM /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
>     kde|kde1|kde2)
>        exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSHAGENT /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.kde"
>        ;;
> # icewm start
> # automatically added by the icewm rpm package.
>     IceWM)
>         exec -l /bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/icewm-session"
>         ;;
> # icewm end
>     twm)
>         # fall back to twm
>        exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSHAGENT /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.twm"
> 
> With Red Hat Linux 9, that was enough for IceWM
> to appear as a choice of sessions in GDM, and
> it did worked. Now with Fedora Core 1, it does
> not work. Simply no IceWM session is presented
> in GDM.
> 
> What am I missing here? Any clues?
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Romildo
> 
> 
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