Am Donnerstag, 29. April 2004 16:34 schrieb Stephan Matthiesen: > Hello, > > Am Donnerstag, 29. April 2004 14:04 schrieb Martin Fahrendorf: > > Am Donnerstag, 29. April 2004 13:51 schrieb Stephan Matthiesen: > > .. > > > > question: How do I add an item in the KDE Display Manager > > > (login screen)? > > ... > > > > SessionTypes=default,kde,twm,wmaker,failsafe,gnome > > > > kdm of KDE3.2 no longer uses these line (my experience). Look at > > $KDEDIR/share/apps/kdm/sessions. there are all definitions of > > available windows manager. With TryExec kdm checks whether the > > window manager is available (and adds it into his list). on login > > kdm starts the Exec entry (in the *.desktop files). > > Thanks for your help - that pointed me in the right direction. But > there is a bit more to it: Actually all the *desktop files were > there and contained the correct Exec and TryExec entries, but that > didn't work. > > I had to copy the relevant *.desktop files from > /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions into /usr/share/xsessions and now it > works as it should. > > Apparently this directory is now used by both KDM and GDM. The > changelog 3.1.5->3.2. mentions: > KDM: More sophisticated session definitions, common with GDM > and GDM uses /usr/share/xsessions > (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2003-September/ >msg00102.html) Ah, that is the reason for the change. The location depends on the configuration stuff. I compiled everything by from source and this uses $KDEDIR location. (possibly the /usr/share/session part too. I have to check). > > Cheers > Stephan > ___________________________________________________ > . > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. Martin
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