The text file is /etc/X11/window-manager. man chksession to
get some clues on what to do with it. It isn't that simple however:
you still have to convince kdm/xdm to actually list the new
session. In Mandrake 7.1, for instance, you log in using some
existing session e.g. to KDE, open Control Centre-System-Login
Manager, and add the new session name for the new entry in
/etc/X11/window-manager. I don't know why it is not updated
automatically, maybe just a Mandrake 7.1 bug. You are right about
the lack of documentation, I had to start with /etc/inittab and
track down how kdm gets started blow-by-blow until I found
that command chksession was called in a script.
>Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:34:10 +0000 (GMT)
>From: Mark Page <mpage at esatclear.ie>
>To: ilug at linux.ie>Subject: [ILUG] Mandrake 7.2 and Graphical login
>>Upon install of 7.2, gdm, or is it kdm (it's not clear), presents you with
>a list of sessions, one of which includes Gnome.
>>I decided to install the RPM's off 7.1 for Enlightenment (which was always
>presented as a session option under 7.1). It installed no problem and was
>presented as an option under the Gnome Control Centre but not under gdm. I
>cannot find how you amend the graphical login manager to include as a
>separate option!!
>>I then updated Gnome from one of the Linux Format magazines using the
>Helix installer. No problems until I re-booted, and, lo and behold the
>graphical login had now removed Gnome as an option. I can't get the option
>back.
>>I have written before on the issue of gdm/kdm. I still haven't got the
>problem solved and definitely in all my attempts over the last two years I
>cannot find any distro. which contains a man page or explanation as to how
>you add a window manager or as to how you configure the login to achieve.
>>Surely when you are presented with the option of a window manager at login
>there must be a text file that says 'when you add 'such and such' it must
>point to 'some directory' to work'.
>>Any help appreciated.
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