Magneto
November 2nd, 2004, 02:49 AM
It took awhile for me to find the correct info on this topic.
I just installed openbox and wanted to start it without using startx so here is what you do.
To add another session to the Sessions list within GDM you must add a .desktop file to /usr/share/xsessions.
The format of the file is
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
# Custom entry - YAY
Name=OpenBox
Comment=Finally
Exec=openbox
Icon=
Type=Application
save this file as openbox.desktop
now openbox will be in the gdm sessions list
This works for any other desktop manager as well- Flux,Blackbox,KDE etc
just modify the Exec={command} entry to suit your needs.
Changing the sessions list has varied from gnome version to version(maybe not anymore) and OS to OS.
I just installed openbox and wanted to start it without using startx so here is what you do.
To add another session to the Sessions list within GDM you must add a .desktop file to /usr/share/xsessions.
The format of the file is
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
# Custom entry - YAY
Name=OpenBox
Comment=Finally
Exec=openbox
Icon=
Type=Application
save this file as openbox.desktop
now openbox will be in the gdm sessions list
This works for any other desktop manager as well- Flux,Blackbox,KDE etc
just modify the Exec={command} entry to suit your needs.
Changing the sessions list has varied from gnome version to version(maybe not anymore) and OS to OS.