Re: trouble adding window manager to GDM

[Joris Huizer <jorishuizer@planet.nl>]

Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 06:07:25AM +0000, Adam Funk 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:
>
>
> I'm using the version of gdm that comes with woody.  Does it work the same?
> And where should I look to find this documented?  I haven't been able to
> find it.
>
> -- hendrik

For the gdm in woody, you need to add a script file in /etc/gdm/Session
My (old) custom /etc/gdm/Session/fluxbox file is like this:

#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/gdm/Sessions/fluxbox
#
# global fluxbox session file -- used by gdm

exec /etc/X11/Xsession /usr/bin/fluxbox

(Files that are added there by debian are much bigger than this)
Don't forget to make files you add, executable.

HTH,

Joris