Where's my gdm.conf gone?

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Wed Oct 11 09:05:34 PDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 10:48 -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
> On 10/11/2006 10:17, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 08:58 -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I recently rebuilt my machine.  I just installed gdm, and went to 
> >> setting it up the way I like.  I need to edit my gdm.conf file... yet I 
> >> don't seem to have one.
> >>
> >> Can anyone tell me where it is, or why I would not have one?  There 
> >> definitely is not one on my machine.
> > 
> > Use custom.conf or the gdmsetup utility instead.
> 
> Once upon a time I setup gdm to launch my .xsession file when I logged
> in.  This required that I edit gdm.conf and change the
> SessionDesktopDir such that:  SessionDesktopDir=/usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/Sessions/
> 
> If I were to do this in custom.conf (which is basically empty), what
> section would I do it in?

This shouldn't be necessary, but it's under the daemon section.

Joe

> 
> Or is there some other (better) way to accomplish this.  Since I do not 
> use Gnome in any way (just gdm)... I need a way (my .xsession file) to 
> get things up and on their feet.
> 
> Thanks.
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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