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Date:      Sun, 19 Oct 2003 03:16:29 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Steve Wingate <s.wingate@pobox.com>
Cc:        Steve Wingate <s.wingate@cox.net>
Subject:   Re: GDM config for other wm's
Message-ID:  <1066547789.679.0.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <20031018235613.K1280@daemon.g-e-e-k.net>
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On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 02:59, Steve Wingate wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>=20
> > On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 17:25, Steve Wingate wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Did you select "KDE" from the Sessions pull-down in GDM?  What does
> > > > ~/.dmrc say?  Are you using the factory gdm.conf?
> > >
> > > I've tried selecting them all and I still login with gnome.
> > > GDM.conf is generic with the exception of changing the graphical logi=
n
> > > greeter png.
> > >
> > > steve@daemon:~> cat .dmrc
> > >
> > > [Desktop]
> > > Session=3Dgnome.desktop
> > > A
> >
> > Try deleting ~/.dmrc.  I just tried this again with my twm.desktop (I
> > don't have KDE installed, but I assume the example on I gave in the FAQ
> > would work for KDE), and it worked fine:
> >
> > [Desktop Entry]
> > Encoding=3DUTF-8
> > Name=3DTWM
> > Comment=3DThis session logs you into twm
> > Exec=3D/usr/X11R6/bin/twm
> > TryExec=3D/usr/X11R6/bin/twm
> > Icon=3D
> > Type=3DApplication
> >
> > I have a ~/.xsession file, and that doesn't interfere.  I also have a
> > ~/.gnomerc (not used by GDM anymore), and that doesn't interfere.  Nor
> > does ~/.xinitrc.  However, I haven't tried ~/.Xclients yet, though.  If
> > you have such a file, you might try removing it.
> >
> > Joe
>=20
> It works for root and a new test user, but not my normal account. It's
> clearly reading one of my config files. I just can't tell which one. I
> deleted ~/.gdmrc, selected kde from the list, it logged me into Gnome and=
 a new ~/.gdmrc was created
> automatically with:
>=20
> [Desktop]
> Session=3Dkde

You could always go through your relevant dot files, and see which one
causes this.

Joe

>=20
>=20
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
> |Steve Wingate		<s.wingate@pobox.com>
> |MCSE, CCNA		Sat Oct 18 23:50:00 PDT 2003
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
> |FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE
> |11:50PM  up 39 days, 16:22, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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