GDM config for other wm's

[Steve Wingate]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 17:25, Steve Wingate wrote:
> > >
> > > Did you select "KDE" from the Sessions pull-down in GDM?  What does
> > > ~/.dmrc say?  Are you using the factory gdm.conf?
> >
> > I've tried selecting them all and I still login with gnome.
> > GDM.conf is generic with the exception of changing the graphical login
> > greeter png.
> >
> > steve at daemon:~> cat .dmrc
> >
> > [Desktop]
> > Session=gnome.desktop
> > A
>
> Try deleting ~/.dmrc.  I just tried this again with my twm.desktop (I
> don't have KDE installed, but I assume the example on I gave in the FAQ
> would work for KDE), and it worked fine:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Name=TWM
> Comment=This session logs you into twm
> Exec=/usr/X11R6/bin/twm
> TryExec=/usr/X11R6/bin/twm
> Icon=
> Type=Application
>
> I have a ~/.xsession file, and that doesn't interfere.  I also have a
> ~/.gnomerc (not used by GDM anymore), and that doesn't interfere.  Nor
> does ~/.xinitrc.  However, I haven't tried ~/.Xclients yet, though.  If
> you have such a file, you might try removing it.
>
> Joe

It works for root and a new test user, but not my normal account. It's
clearly reading one of my config files. I just can't tell which one. I
deleted ~/.gdmrc, selected kde from the list, it logged me into Gnome and a new ~/.gdmrc was created
automatically with:

[Desktop]
Session=kde


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