From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 15:05:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFEE316A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:05:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us (hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us [147.144.1.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0485F43D4C for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:05:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abozan01@ccsf.edu) Received: from localhost (abozan01@localhost) by hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id i09N5QB21575; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:05:26 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us: abozan01 owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:05:26 -0800 (PST) From: Adam Bozanich X-X-Sender: abozan01@hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us To: Monah Baki In-Reply-To: <20040108234042.M25820@whywire.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdm+xfce4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 23:05:39 -0000 On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Monah Baki wrote: > Hi all, I'm running freebsd 5.1, and trying to use gdm login manager and xfce4. At the login > username, if I login as root or a normal user, I get a SESSION MENU dialog box > CHOOSESESSIONLISTWIDGET and I can only choose 2 options DEFAULT/FAIL SAFE and CANCEL, > and nothing happens in either case. > > > Thank you Hi Monah. Try creating a file in /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/Sessions ( or maybe /usr/X11R6/etc/dm/Sessions ) called xfce.desktop with these lines in it: [Desktop Entry] Name=Xfce4 Exec=custom That "Exec=custom" tells gdm to use your regular .xinitrc file to set up the session, just like it would if you used 'startx' So you would want something like this in ~/.xinitrc: exec xfce4 I hope this helps -Adam