Re: trouble adding window manager to GDM

[Philipp Bliedung <philipp.bliedung@furman.edu>]

debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote:

> On Monday 14 June 2004 18:30, Philipp Bliedung wrote:
>
>  
>
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am running Debian unstable and updated to Gnome 2.6 this past
> > > weekend. After the update (and an update to the newest version of gdm
> > > 2.4.4.7-3) I can't select any other window managers from the GDM
> > > login-screen.
> > >
> > > I want to add blackbox and Xfce4.
> > >      
> The new version of GDM uses /etc/dm/Sessions/*.desktop files.  Here's my
> xfce4.desktop file, for example:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=Xfce4
> Comment=Xfce4
> Exec=/usr/bin/xfce4-session
> # no icon yet, only the top three are currently used
> Icon=
> Type=Application
>
>
>  
Thanks a lot.
..That was what I was looking for  ... now I have blackbox and xfce4 in 
the window-manager selection.

thanks again,
Philipp