Ubuntu Sessions

[MateoGWJ]

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.

[MateoGWJ]

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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Yeah, I've gotten that far, but how do I add them all to the sessions menu?

[dude2425]

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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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

[Lechio]

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:

[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

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

[MateoGWJ]

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:

[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

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!

[markwolfe Veteran]

Thanks! Just what I needed!

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Glad you got it working the way you wanted. (Y)

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. :yes:

I am just an ordinary user. :blush:

[hornett]

^^ Damnit! You're too modest, Mark!

[kjordan2001]

Glad you got it working the way you wanted. (Y)

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. :yes:

I am just an ordinary user. :blush:

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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).