I was able to find some info on the KDE Wiki Tips & Tricks about this http://kde.ground.cz/tiki-index.php?page=Tips+and+Tricks they were quoting something from this list actually I think.... ************************************************* I have noticed that the part of the KDM configuration where the sessions can be changed is missing in (my?) control center. If you have the same problem and still want to change what's displayed in the sessions menu in KDM, you can do it 'by hand'. Well, you could do it before as well, but things have changed a bit since KDE 3.1.x: <quote from some kde-mailing list> Your problem is not the file kdmrc. This file is no longer used to show the selection of available WMs. kde3.2 uses .desktop files in $KDEDIR/share/apps/kdm/sessions to determine wether a WM is available or not. In these files there is a entry called TryExec. On startup kdm checks whether the command in TryExec can be executed. If yes, the WM is displayed in the entry, if not ... . If you chose one of these entries from kdm the Exec part of the .desktop file is passed to the xsession script (defined in kdmrc). </quote> So if you have p.e. xfce installed correctly and KDM doesn't show the entry, you can edit the existing xfce.desktop file and change the TryExec entry to contain the full path to your executable. (If your Xsession script is correct, this should work straight, but if you use the KDM-scripts, you might as well have to change the Exec entry to contain the full path as well.) Notabene: This should only be necessary if your needed session is not in your $PATH (p.e. if you want to be able to choose both KDE-3.1 AND KDE-3.2) A hint on howto accomplish that will follow as well ;) ************************************************* I went in again (had previously tried to accomplish this by commenting out the lines in question) and this time moved some of the .desktop files into the parent dir and altered the TryExec command in others. sure enough it worked and it removed those from the Session Type menu. Unfortunately it there were no .desktop files for Custom Default or Failsafe.....while it would be nice to remove them all except for KDE, Default should be fine since the default is KDE but both custom and failsafe allow users to circumvent kde-kiosk....any thoughts on where to go to put an end to the menu as a whole or at leas the failsafe and custom session types? thanks again On 6/15/05, Justin Denick <justin.denick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > gdm uses something like this > .............................................................................................................................................. > [root@ltsp root]# ls /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/ > Blackbox default Default Failsafe FluxBox GNOME IceWM KDE > Reset your desktop XFce4 > [root@ltsp root]# > .............................................................................................................................................. > > While I run KDE exclusively at home, I do not have acces to the box > RN, so you'll have to take a look at you own box. However, the concept > would be to change the perms on these file so that only certain > groups/users can execute/read/write to them. > > On 6/15/05, Mr Wiggles <astalavista.box.sk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am running suse 9.1pro but I think this question is only specific to KDE > > (running 3.2) and not the distro... > > > > How can I lock down kdm so that when users are logging in they are only > > able to login to a kde session? I have set this box up as a kiosk using > > kde-kiosk, sadly if they click menu (wouldnt mind getting rid of this > > button altogether) -> session type -> and select something else like admin > > or failsafe, or anything really.....they circumvent all the kiosk > > restrictions that we have in place. > > > > /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/sessions contains .desktop files that people say > > reference all of the session types but there are session types that appear > > at the kdm login screen that do not appear in this dir and lots of .desktop > > files that are in this dir that do not appear as session type options at > > the login screen. > > > > there is also the kdmrc file which I have heard contains a SessionType= > > line that specifies what sessions a user can select from but even after > > modifying this line nothing changes in the session type menu at the kdm > > login screen. > > > > > > So ideally...how can i remove the menu option from the login screen > > altogether, or alternatively how can i make it so that "KDE" is the only > > option under the session types drop down under the menu. > > > > tia > > ___________________________________________________ > > . > > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > > > > > -- > Got Gentoo? > > It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. > -- Mark Twain > ___________________________________________________ . 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