From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 11:05:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FD20106564A for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 11:05:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aijaz.abaig@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 676078FC29 for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 11:05:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aijaz.abaig@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so726713wfa.7 for ; Thu, 01 May 2008 04:05:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=pBp36kvw2MmkywTpyBxyK9BnpNwVb15FrEaukOjpiVI=; b=MnhcqThQRqfb/wbxZfvF6DEY2t4VVHA9wBvcfY8tHE4+Wn8SDcKb/9W8fCMSWHuFuLjZkB5lqFVA9IbkekK9fajojWdrMvt3ej95stBD+KTJ6V1p6oCIkrA5g+GiOy24RrsDHLoPdZKeqXWPz5esa+17YaUWKqdWF5reKTqEIjM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=qdU6dDS9TI07DfcBnePjUrUCByVZBaseHPZsntdVThwe9KCDhzoBolws2gOEv6syW256Y7lo305JRMXG7UGbnxQSI5zLDCszvFbVQA5w1hLyq6TKhqfcn2xr4LgWwEWmv9kGwQWgsO7YH4gfh/ln2Fivk/kgbD6/jZqI/lbQAZ8= Received: by 10.142.218.4 with SMTP id q4mr731194wfg.261.1209639950877; Thu, 01 May 2008 04:05:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.230.7 with HTTP; Thu, 1 May 2008 04:05:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <101a1afc0805010405s127300aew5b2d0ecd65c5b6fa@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 13:05:50 +0200 From: "Aijaz Baig" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: gdm sessions - xfce + fluxbox X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 11:05:54 -0000 Hello, I would want to have a choice at login time between xfce (my default desktop wm) and fluxbox. I have followed the steps from this document : http://geek00l.blogspot.com/2006/06/freebsd-fluxbox-gdm.html but i did not have the xsessions directory under /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/. so i created one and created another file called Fluxbox.desktop inside it. Then followed the rest of the document as is. Additionally I copied the startfluxbox binary to the ~/.Xclients file under the binary for xfce. What has happened now is that I still dont see no choice under the sessions menu in gdm morever i get logged on to xfce first. Now when I log on from xfce I get logged on to fluxbox meaning the fluxbox desktop may be waiting for the x-resources like the screen, mouse etc to become available and then when it does become available it starts to run. Im rather confused. Please help me with this and perhaps give me some insight as to why it is the wa it is if you can Hope to hear from you fellas -- Best Regards, Aijaz