GDM sessions

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Thu Apr 1 13:38:03 PST 2004


On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 00:25, Eric Gebhart wrote:
> I thought I'd try GDM, But I hate sawfish.  I tried making a new
> session the way you outline.  It doesn't work.
> 
> I'm running Gnome 2.4 on FreeBSD 4.9.  This is a fresh install
> with a cvsup done yesterday - before I built everything.
> 
> I also tried the old way, putting the exec one liner in the 
> other place.  I've pretty much given up.  It shouldn't take
> hours to change the default window manager.  
> 
> I wouldn't mind using gnome if it weren't so painful.  It's 
> beginning to rival windows.
> 
> Any clues you have might get me to appreciate it more.
> 
> I'm back to using my xinitrc, It's not as pretty but it's simple
> and it works.
> 
> I can't run a gnome session because it stomps
> on my window manager.  .gnome/default.wm used to work for this.
> but apparently not anymore.
> 
> Gnome used to be friendly with other window managers.  I wish
> that were still the case.
> 
> If you can provide any help I would be appreciative.

What exactly did you do?

Joe

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eric
> 
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