kdm and fluxbox

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Thursday 16 February 2006 06:35, RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote:
> I am tring to get kdm to log me into fluxbox i have followed the
> handbook to the letter and can login to gnome kde and enlightnment
> also options for defaut and failsafe and some others none of which i
> have tried yet.  However flux box is not there and i cannot seem to
> find where kde is getting these sessions from.  There does not seem
> to be any option in kcontrol for session like mentioned in the
> freebsd handbook i did go into
>
> usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
>
> and added some lines but nothing happened
>
>    failsafe)
>                 exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0
>                 ;;
>         kde)
>                 exec /usr/local/bin/startkde
>                 ;;
>         GNOME)
>                 exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session
>                 ;;
>         FluxBox)
>                 exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox
>                 ;;
>         esac
> esac
>
>
> WHERE IS KDM GETTING ITS SESSION INFO FROM AND HOW DO I TELL IT TO
> ADD FLUXBOX

Normally you shouldn't have to touch any file at all, but I think 
there's an error in /usr/local/share/apps/kdm/sessions/fluxbox.desktop

In that file change lines 4-5 to

Exec=fluxbox
TryExec=fluxbox