Hi , how can i add a new session for gdm2.4 ?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 09:54, damon wrote:
> Hi , I've got gnome 2.4 installed from ports tree , and gdm 2.4 run at startup
> without any problem , and everything working well with gdm 2.4
> my system is FreeBSD 5.1 current , and i just install kde 3.1.4 with packages
> can i add a new session for kde 3.1.4 ?
> i've try to add a new file KDE in /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/Sessions/ and chmod +x KDE
> , chown gdm KDE
> this file is a pretty simple srcipt
> #! /bin/sh
> exec /usr/local/bin/startkde
> but when i restart gdm , KDE did not appear in the session menu :(
> i try to edit the /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/Xsession this file looks like define
> those sessions appear in the session menu , but when i try to edit fail safe
> session of this file , i change the xterm - bala bala to exec
> /usr/local/bin/startkde then restart gdm , but when i run the fail safe
> session from gdm , it's still all the same , nothing change :(
> my question is : how can i add a new session for kde 3.1.4 on gdm session menu ?
> or where i can find the solution , i've try to search the google.com for this
> , but still no good , thank you :)

The online help for GDM tells you how to create new sessions. 
Basically, you have to add a .desktop file to
/usr/X11R6/etc/dm/Sessions.

Joe

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