GDM config for other wm's

[Steve Wingate]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 16:11, Steve Wingate wrote:
> > Does anyone have a gdm configuration that starts other wm's like KDE, Windowmaker, etc? Good gdm howtos are rarer than Big Foot sightings.
>
> I'm working on an FAQ entry for this.
>

I tried following the FAQ and I get the entries in the list, but I'm still
going straight into gnome. I made
separate *.session files for each wm I use:

steve at daemon:~> ll /usr/X11R6/etc/dm/Sessions/
total 14
 6 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4101 Oct 18 00:13 default.desktop
 2 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   169 Oct 18 11:43 fluxbox.desktop
 2 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  steve   163 Oct 18 11:33 kde.desktop
 2 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   167 Oct 18 11:36 windowmaker.desktop
 2 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   130 Oct 18 11:38 xfce.desktop

Here is my kde one:

steve at daemon:~> cat /usr/X11R6/etc/dm/Sessions/kde.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=KDE
Comment=This session logs you into KDE
Exec=/usr/local/bin/startkde
TryExec=/usr/local/bin/startkde
Icon=
Type=Application

I commented out the wm startups in ~/.xsession like so:
steve at daemon:~> cat .xsession
PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin"
tail -f /home/steve/.xsession-errors > /dev/console &

xrdb ~/.Xdefaults
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
#wterm -bg black -fg white -geometry +0+55 &
#exec wmaker
#bbkeys -w & exec blackbox
#exec fluxbox
#exec enlightenment
#exec icewm
#exec startkde
#exec gnome-session

What am I missing here?

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