Re: Adding Xfce4 to the GDM sessions menu

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap@haitsma.org>]

Adam Funk wrote:
> On Saturday 10 April 2004 18:30, Bob Schlärmann wrote:
>
>
> > GDM recently switched to a new session file format based on .desktop
> > files. Look in /usr/share/xsessions for some example .desktop files,
> > i've got the following in xfce.desktop:
> >
> > [Desktop Entry]
> > Name=Xfce4
> > Comment=Xfce4
> > Exec=/usr/bin/xfce4-session
> > # no icon yet, only the top three are currently used
> > Icon=
> > Type=Application
>
>
> While sorting this problem out, I noticed that /etc/gdm/Sessions/Xfce4
> contains the following:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /etc/X11/Xsession /usr/bin/xfce4-session
>  
> What's the practical difference between running
> /usr/bin/xfce4-session
> and
> exec /etc/X11/Xsession /usr/bin/xfce4-session
> ?
>
> Also, for the more complicated scripts (e.g., /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome),
> should I just use
> Exec=/etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome
> in gnome.desktop?
I think that new version of gdm don't look at these scripts anymore but 
just the .desktop file. BTW for Gnome Exec should /usr/bin/gnome-session

Jaap