On Monday 11 December 2000 20:13, Anderson, Tim TL33E wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to have both KDE and GNOME (helix) in my display manager's session > menu (I'm not bothered which one I use). I thought this would be quite > simple but after looking through docs, config files and mailing list > archives I'm still not sure what to do. Can anyone give me some help, > background knowledge or link to a HOWTO that I've missed? > > Thanks > > Tim
the config file of gdm is in /etc/gdm. Under /etc/gdm/Sessions/ are executable shell scripts that describe the types of sessions you can start from the login screen. Each file here shows up as a menu entry in the login screen's session menu. Ideally here you should place a file "kde" that does all the necessary initialization for a kde session, but I don't know what should be the content for kde. Probably kdm installs such a file somewhere too, so maybe you could use that (Can someone step in here, thanks?). Alternatively (quick & dirty fix) just do this: 1. create a file .xsession in your home directory 2. In the first line of the file write: #!/bin/sh exec startkde 3. chmod u+x .xsession 4. cp /etc/X11/Xsession /etc/gdm/Sessions/Kde Then, when you use Kde as session type it should work. Greetings
