Where's my gdm.conf gone?

[Eric Schuele]

On 10/11/06 11:05, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, I'll try it.

What is the correct way to do what I am trying to accomplish?

All I want is for gdm to be an "xdm replacement".  Meaning, I simply 
want to log in via gdm and then have gdm run my .xsession file as a 
script to setup my window manager, start some apps, etc.

Here is a link to the problem description and the solution I found last 
time I had this problem:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-April/119887.html

> 
> 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
>>>
>>
>>