Quick question, linux gurus (yo, Mark!). The default login screen gives you an option for different 'sessions' (Last used, Gnome, one other DE, and 2 failsafes). How do I change/expand this to include other DEs, like Afterstep, Kde, etc?
Thanks.
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QUOTE(MateoGWJ @ Jan 19 2005, 15:57)
Quick question, linux gurus (yo, Mark!). The default login screen gives you an option for different 'sessions' (Last used, Gnome, one other DE, and 2 failsafes). How do I change/expand this to include other DEs, like Afterstep, Kde, etc?
Thanks.
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Thanks.
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From my experience, all you have to do is install them through apt-get or synaptic and it will add itself for you.
I'm not a guru though, so I'm not sure how to manualy add them
QUOTE(dude2425 @ Jan 19 2005, 16:03)
From my experience, all you have to do is install them through apt-get or synaptic and it will add itself for you.
I'm not a guru though, so I'm not sure how to manualy add them
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I'm not a guru though, so I'm not sure how to manualy add them
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Yeah, I've gotten that far, but how do I add them all to the sessions menu?
From what you say u look like u are using GDM, and a debian based distro.
If you have other DE/WM's installed they should be listed on yor Login Manager if they where correctly installed.
If you don't see them there, as root browse to: /usr/share/xsessions/
In there you will see the list of DE/WM's currently displayed on yor login manager. If u cannot find
a .desktop file for a window manager that you have installed just create a new text file with the following:
This eg. is for KDE, and you can use it as a template for other DE/WM you may want to add. Don't forget
to change the exec path and rename the file to YorWindowManager.desktop
If you have other DE/WM's installed they should be listed on yor Login Manager if they where correctly installed.
If you don't see them there, as root browse to: /usr/share/xsessions/
In there you will see the list of DE/WM's currently displayed on yor login manager. If u cannot find
a .desktop file for a window manager that you have installed just create a new text file with the following:
CODE
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=XSession
Exec=/usr/bin/startkde
TryExec=/usr/bin/startkde
Name=KDE
Comment=The K Desktop Environment. A powerful Open Source graphical desktop environment
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=XSession
Exec=/usr/bin/startkde
TryExec=/usr/bin/startkde
Name=KDE
Comment=The K Desktop Environment. A powerful Open Source graphical desktop environment
This eg. is for KDE, and you can use it as a template for other DE/WM you may want to add. Don't forget
to change the exec path and rename the file to YorWindowManager.desktop
QUOTE(LechioPT @ Jan 19 2005, 17:17)
From what you say u look like u are using GDM, and a debian based distro.
If you have other DE/WM's installed they should be listed on yor Login Manager if they where correctly installed.
If you don't see them there, as root browse to: /usr/share/xsessions/
In there you will see the list of DE/WM's currently displayed on yor login manager. If u cannot find
a .desktop file for a window manager that you have installed just create a new text file with the following:
This eg. is for KDE, and you can use it as a template for other DE/WM you may want to add. Don't forget
to change the exec path and rename the file to YorWindowManager.desktop
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If you have other DE/WM's installed they should be listed on yor Login Manager if they where correctly installed.
If you don't see them there, as root browse to: /usr/share/xsessions/
In there you will see the list of DE/WM's currently displayed on yor login manager. If u cannot find
a .desktop file for a window manager that you have installed just create a new text file with the following:
CODE
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=XSession
Exec=/usr/bin/startkde
TryExec=/usr/bin/startkde
Name=KDE
Comment=The K Desktop Environment. A powerful Open Source graphical desktop environment
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=XSession
Exec=/usr/bin/startkde
TryExec=/usr/bin/startkde
Name=KDE
Comment=The K Desktop Environment. A powerful Open Source graphical desktop environment
This eg. is for KDE, and you can use it as a template for other DE/WM you may want to add. Don't forget
to change the exec path and rename the file to YorWindowManager.desktop
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Thanks! Just what I needed!
QUOTE(MateoGWJ @ Jan 21 2005, 10:55)
Thanks! Just what I needed![right][snapback]585332414[/snapback][/right]
Glad you got it working the way you wanted. 
And, just for future reference, I may be a SuperMod here in Neowin, and I use Linux 100% at home, but I am far from being a 'guru'. We have a great many people here who know much more than I could hope to.
I am just an ordinary user.
^^ Damnit! You're too modest, Mark!
QUOTE(markjensen @ Jan 21 2005, 10:48)
Glad you got it working the way you wanted.
And, just for future reference, I may be a SuperMod here in Neowin, and I use Linux 100% at home, but I am far from being a 'guru'. We have a great many people here who know much more than I could hope to.
I am just an ordinary user.
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And, just for future reference, I may be a SuperMod here in Neowin, and I use Linux 100% at home, but I am far from being a 'guru'. We have a great many people here who know much more than I could hope to.
I am just an ordinary user.
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Well, you do know what to seem to say, at least as far as Fedora, which most questions do seem to be about. Although lately it's been Ubuntu questions. Wish I knew more about those 2 distros so I could answer questions, but I'm more into source distributions (LFS and Gentoo mainly).
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