gdm sessions - xfce + fluxbox

2008-05-01 Thread Aijaz Baig
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

Re: GDM sessions....

2006-04-26 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:13:02 -0500 Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah... that's why I started out with XDM. However, after some time, and loading apps I was interested in, I turned around and noticed I was only missing two GDM dependencies anyway... so I figured a little eye candy

Re: GDM sessions.... [Solved]

2006-04-24 Thread Eric Schuele
sure you have #!/bin/sh as first line 4) make sure ~/.xsession is executable 5) create a file /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/Sessions/MySession.desktop (replace MySession with whatever name you like) 6) Give it the following contents [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=XSession Comment

Re: GDM sessions....

2006-04-24 Thread Eric Schuele
Norberto Meijome wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:35:21 -0500 Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Though I am starting to experiment with various display managers. Can you tell me what it is you like (and dislike) about wdm (i've not heard much about wdm)? port = x11/wdm Very few

GDM sessions....

2006-04-23 Thread Eric Schuele
Hello, I am toying with GDM a bit. And am having some difficulties configuring it the way I want. I had looked at the FreeBSD/GNOME handbook and found no mention of places for 'support' (mailing-lists, irc, etc). I was hoping someone could point me towards a good source of info. Should

Re: GDM sessions....

2006-04-23 Thread Pete Slagle
Eric Schuele wrote: I have GDM installed and working. I *do not* have gnome installed. I was hoping GDM would do as XDM and just run my .xsession. But it does not. I would simply like it to be an XDM replacement. I use KDM for this. Configuration is quite flexible.

Re: GDM sessions....

2006-04-23 Thread Eric Schuele
Pete Slagle wrote: Eric Schuele wrote: I have GDM installed and working. I *do not* have gnome installed. I was hoping GDM would do as XDM and just run my .xsession. But it does not. I would simply like it to be an XDM replacement. I use KDM for this. Configuration is quite flexible.

Re: GDM sessions....

2006-04-23 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:02:53 -0500 Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have GDM installed and working. I *do not* have gnome installed. I was hoping GDM would do as XDM and just run my .xsession. But it does not. I would simply like it to be an XDM replacement. I I use wdm instead

Re: GDM sessions....

2006-04-23 Thread Eric Schuele
Norberto Meijome wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:02:53 -0500 Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have GDM installed and working. I *do not* have gnome installed. I was hoping GDM would do as XDM and just run my .xsession. But it does not. I would simply like it to be an XDM replacement.

Re: GDM sessions....

2006-04-23 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:35:21 -0500 Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Though I am starting to experiment with various display managers. Can you tell me what it is you like (and dislike) about wdm (i've not heard much about wdm)? port = x11/wdm Very few dependencies (in particular, it

Re: GDM sessions....

2006-04-23 Thread Joseph Vella
On Sunday 23 April 2006 19:35, Eric Schuele wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:02:53 -0500 Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have GDM installed and working. I *do not* have gnome installed. I was hoping GDM would do as XDM and just run my .xsession. But it