Graphical Boot Sessions
Daniel Stonier
snorri_dj at operamail.com
Sun Mar 7 23:48:43 UTC 2004
My enlightenment.desktop file, attached this time!
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 09:32:36 +1000, Daniel Stonier
<snorri_dj at operamail.com> wrote:
>
> Redhat moved its display manager info to a generic spot with fedora in
> /etc/X11/dm. Im using enlightenment and also running xscreensaver when I
> start up e and this is my setup which should be similar to yours.
>
> Created an enlightenment.desktop file and added it to /etc/X11/dm (see
> attached file). This has a line "Exec = Custom". You could instead
> actually put your executable for starting up windowmaker here (look at
> the other .desktop files in this directory). However when it is set to
> custom it will then go dig up your ~/.Xclients file and run what you
> have there.
>
> My .Xclients file looks like this:
>
> ############## Start of .Xclients file ######################
> #!/bin/bash
>
> exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver -no-splash -display :0 &
> exec /usr/bin/enlightenment
>
> ############### End of .Xclients file #######################
>
> Put an ampersand after everything except windowmaker - it needs to run
> in the foreground until you close it down.
>
> Best of luck,
> Daniel Stonier
>
> On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 19:39:47 +0530, Kaustubh Ghosh
> <meetkaustubhghosh at vsnl.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Can anyone tell me how to add sessions in Fedora i.e. the files the
>> graphical
>> session changer relies upon & how to edit them.
>> I am not getting some of my installed desktops in the graphical session
>> list(eg. WindowsMaker present from the time I used Redhat 8 before
>> upgrade).
>> I am also not being able to interchange between GNOME and KDE from the
>> graphical sessions manager(I can choose any of them as default desktop
>> though
>> and interchange the default desktop from "Desktop switching tool" after
>> logging in.). I can of course choose to any of the other alternative
>> desktops
>> displayed in "sessions" menu in the graphical login screen.
>>
>> All is perfect in text mode login.
>>
>>
>
>
>
--
Daniel Stonier
email:snorri_dj at operamail.com
http://members.optusnet.com.au/stonierd/
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