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
>>
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