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Date:      Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:41:01 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        damon <damon@damon.ns2go.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hi , how can i add a new session for gdm2.4 ?
Message-ID:  <1064940061.770.7.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <20030930131720.M79331@damon.ns2go.com>
References:  <20030930131720.M79331@damon.ns2go.com>

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On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 09:54, damon wrote:
> Hi , I've got gnome 2.4 installed from ports tree , and gdm 2.4 run at st=
artup
> without any problem , and everything working well with gdm 2.4
> my system is FreeBSD 5.1 current , and i just install kde 3.1.4 with pack=
ages
> can i add a new session for kde 3.1.4 ?
> i've try to add a new file KDE in /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/Sessions/ and chmod =
+x KDE
> , chown gdm KDE
> this file is a pretty simple srcipt
> #! /bin/sh
> exec /usr/local/bin/startkde
> but when i restart gdm , KDE did not appear in the session menu :(
> i try to edit the /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/Xsession this file looks like define
> those sessions appear in the session menu , but when i try to edit fail s=
afe
> session of this file , i change the xterm - bala bala to exec
> /usr/local/bin/startkde then restart gdm , but when i run the fail safe
> session from gdm , it's still all the same , nothing change :(
> my question is : how can i add a new session for kde 3.1.4 on gdm session=
 menu ?
> or where i can find the solution , i've try to search the google.com for =
this
> , but still no good , thank you :)

The online help for GDM tells you how to create new sessions.=20
Basically, you have to add a .desktop file to
/usr/X11R6/etc/dm/Sessions.

Joe

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