Re: Sessions disappeared in the GDM menu!

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap@haitsma.org>]

Adam Funk wrote:
> I just did an apt-get upgrade and now the GDM sessions menu has been cut
> down to Default (which is KDM), Failsafe GNOME and Failsafe something
> else.  /etc/gdm/Sessions still contains all the previous launch
> scripts:
>
>
> /etc/gdm/Sessions $ ls -l
> total 24
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           34 2003-10-23 10:25 Debian
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3089 2003-10-23 10:25 Gnome
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          115 2004-01-30 04:05 KDE
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           76 2004-01-23 15:37 WindowMaker
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          102 2004-03-09 18:40 Xfce4
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3859 2003-10-23 10:25 Xsession
>  
> but GDM is ignoring them.  Why, and how do I fix this (preferably
> quickly)?
Recent version of gdm get there sessions from /usr/share/xsessions
For example to have xfce4 showup. Put xfce.desktop in 
/usr/share/xessions with the following contents

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Xfce4
Comment=Xfce4
Exec=/usr/bin/xfce4-session
# no icon yet, only the top three are currently used
Icon=
Type=Application



Jaap