From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 11 18:40:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E189216A47B for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:40:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (creme-brulee.marcuscom.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D3F243D7E for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:40:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.216] (vpn-client-216.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.216]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9BIdsCm031195; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:39:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Message-ID: <452D3A75.8050604@marcuscom.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:39:49 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Macintosh/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Schuele 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> In-Reply-To: <452D1911.6060007@computer.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.5 (2006-08-29) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where's my gdm.conf gone? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:40:05 -0000 -----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-----