GDM config for other wm's

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 02:59, Steve Wingate wrote:
> 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

You could always go through your relevant dot files, and see which one
causes this.

Joe

> 
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