KDM Sessions, was Re: RH vs Debian (Switch to Red Hat ?)

["Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@ccs.neu.edu>]

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On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, virtanen wrote:

> I've got KDE and it works well, but I wanted to run sometimes wmaker as
> well, because of less memory used. I'm using kdm to start x and then it is
> showing kde starting screen with options to start fvwm, wmaker etc
> windowmanagers installed, but I cannot start but kde. Which are the
> various conf files I had to change? (If I use switchdm and try to start
> xdm, it doesn't work.)

Modify /etc/X11/Xsession so that it can respond to different parameters.
Basically, specifying the session in kdm is simply passing a parameter to
the Xsession script.  The parameter is whatever is showing the kdm combo
box.  So, if wmaker is one of the selections in the combo box, then have
your Xsession script check for 'wmaker' in its parameter  list, and if it
finds it, run wmaker.  I can email you my Xsession script if you need it.

noah

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