On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Jedy Wang wrote: > Hi Andy, > > 1) You can start gdm by running > svcadm enable gdm > I am not sure if cde-login will be disabled automatically. If not, you > should run "svcadm disable cde-login" to disable it first. > > 2) If you can use gdm as your login manager, you can add a fvwm2.desktop > in /usr/share/xsessions/. By doing this, a new entry will be added to > gdm login dialog.
Thanks for the quick response - I switched to the gdm login manager and everything worked fine straight away; svcadm enable gdm doesn't automatically stop cde-login so this has to be stopped manually first. Thanks a lot, Andy > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 18:33 +0100, andy thomas wrote: >> I've just installed OpenSolaris x86-64 build 76 on my PC and have built >> fvwm2 from source and I can run this successfully from a Gnome desktop >> with the -replace option. But I would like to add fvwm2 to the main >> X-login screen as an option along with the existing CDE and Gnome desktop >> environments so that it appears in the 'Session' options list. But I can't >> see how or where these options are configured - several people in this >> list have said that OpenSolaris uses the gdm X display manager but this >> doesn't seem to be running on my installation - running >> /usr/sbin/gdmsetup results in an error message saying gdm is not >> running and that I might be using KDE (kdm) or CDE's display manager >> (dtlogin) instead. Is this correct? >> >> Also, in a message on this topic last year (see >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2007-April/009705.html), >> it was suggested that creating a fvwm2.desktop file in >> /usr/share/xsessions was all that was required but this doesn't put the >> fvwm2 option into the login session options list. >> >> Any help would be appreciated. >> >> Andy >> >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > > ------------------------------------------- Andy Thomas, Time Domain Systems Tel: +44 (0)7866 556626 Fax: +44 (0)20 8372 2582 http://www.time-domain.co.uk
