Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:39:49 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where's my gdm.conf gone? Message-ID: <452D3A75.8050604@marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <452D1911.6060007@computer.org> References: <452CF878.8050601@computer.org> <1160579878.90281.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <452D123F.4050006@computer.org> <1160582724.90281.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <452D1911.6060007@computer.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Eric Schuele wrote: > 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 I think this should still work. However, I do not use GDM in such a way. Joe - -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFLTp1b2iPiv4Uz4cRAum9AJ9eWFuy07RDF4uR6d1fFXsvqtVVEACgqjmv pXu9CkV4+Mt81OzLvJbJvv8= =Y/IY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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