Where's my gdm.conf gone?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Eric Schuele wrote:
> 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

I think this should still work.  However, I do not use GDM in such a way.

Joe

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