Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:17:21 -0500 From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where's my gdm.conf gone? Message-ID: <452D1911.6060007@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <1160582724.90281.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <452CF878.8050601@computer.org> <1160579878.90281.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <452D123F.4050006@computer.org> <1160582724.90281.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On 10/11/06 11:05, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 10:48 -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: >> On 10/11/2006 10:17, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >>> On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 08:58 -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I recently rebuilt my machine. I just installed gdm, and went to >>>> setting it up the way I like. I need to edit my gdm.conf file... yet I >>>> don't seem to have one. >>>> >>>> Can anyone tell me where it is, or why I would not have one? There >>>> definitely is not one on my machine. >>> Use custom.conf or the gdmsetup utility instead. >> Once upon a time I setup gdm to launch my .xsession file when I logged >> in. This required that I edit gdm.conf and change the >> SessionDesktopDir such that: SessionDesktopDir=/usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/Sessions/ >> >> If I were to do this in custom.conf (which is basically empty), what >> section would I do it in? > > This shouldn't be necessary, but it's under the daemon section. Thanks, I'll try it. What is the correct way to do what I am trying to accomplish? All I want is for gdm to be an "xdm replacement". Meaning, I simply want to log in via gdm and then have gdm run my .xsession file as a script to setup my window manager, start some apps, etc. Here is a link to the problem description and the solution I found last time I had this problem: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-April/119887.html > > Joe > >> Or is there some other (better) way to accomplish this. Since I do not >> use Gnome in any way (just gdm)... I need a way (my .xsession file) to >> get things up and on their feet. >> >> Thanks. >>> Joe >>> >> >>
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