Hello all,
I just upgraded my KDE 3.2 alpha2 to beta1 on my Gentoo System (running KDE 3.1.4 for regular work). Now it seems that KDM was changed. Instead of the pulldown for selecting which desktop to use (including both KDE versions) I now get a to choose between KDE, failsave twm... But I cannot choose which KDE version so it always starts 3.2. My wife would prefer a localized 3.1.4 instead and so would I for some productive work. So my question: Will this change back or is there a way of adding items to that menu?
As an interim solution I thought about hardcoding the kdem from 3.1 into my init file for X. Is this a way to go?
Having this work is a two part thing.
You can add anything that you want to the: "Session Types" list. Just open in the Control Center: "System Administration => Login Manager". You need to give KDESU the root password -- click the: "Administrator Mode" button to do this. Then go to the: "Sessions" tab and you can edit the list which is in the lower right quadrant of the widget.
Now for these to work, your: "Xsession" script must make something out of them. How it does this is very distro dependent.
I don't know how Gentoo does this but I somehow get the impression that you have never edited your: "Xsession" script. So I am puzzled. :-|
The only thing I can tell you that isn't distro dependent is that after you login that KDM calls:
Xsession <session type>
where 'session type' is the string that you selected in the login widget (e.g. "kde").
This is passed to the script as $1 and it (the script) needs to take that and call the appropriate script or command. My system has a 'case' structure at the end of the: "Xsession" script. Yours must be different.
You can find some outdated help with this by entering the URL: "help:/kdm" in Konqueror.
-- JRT
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