GDM sessions
Eric Gebhart
saseag at unx.sas.com
Thu Apr 1 15:11:51 PST 2004
Sorry, didn't notice the CC.
yes, It does not work for me. No new sessions are in the list.
The machine in question is in the middle of a portupgrade. I will
check when it is done.
I was having some unrelated problems building openoffice-1.1.
Some ports out of sync with one another, so I decided to a portupgrade was in order.
I had installed gnome2 but it is possible that something was not quite right.
I will check the version when portupgrade is done.
Eric
----- Joe Marcus Clarke's Original Message -----
> On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 17:53, Eric Gebhart wrote:
> > >From this link,
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q15
> >
> > I followed this, from all of the instructions I've found, this seems to make
> > the most sense. And it fit's in with the directory structure on my system.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > <quote>
> >
> > The process for adding new GDM sessions has changed substantially between GNOME 2.2 and 2.4. In order to add new sessions now, you must create a .desktop file containing the session configuration information. Session files live in /usr/X11R6/etc/dm/Sessions. For example, to add a KDE session, create a file in /usr/X11R6/etc/dm/Sessions called kde.desktop. That file should contain the following:
> >
> > [Desktop Entry]
> > Encoding=UTF-8
> > Name=KDE
> > Comment=This session logs you into KDE
> > Exec=/usr/local/bin/startkde
> > TryExec=/usr/local/bin/startkde
> > Icon=
> > Type=Application
> >
> >
> > This file must have execute permissions. For example:
> >
> > # chmod 0555 kde.desktop
> >
> > </quote>
> >
> > After creating this file, restart GDM, and there will be a KDE link under the Sessions menu.
>
> Please don't remove the mailing list in your replies. Are you saying
> this is not working for you? That is, you do not see the new session
> name from the list of available sessions? If so, verify you're using
> the latest version of gdm2. This works fine for me.
>
> If, however, you're trying to change your default window manager under a
> GNOME session, you need to read:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q9
>
> Joe
>
> >
> >
> > ----- Joe Marcus Clarke's Original Message -----
> > > 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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