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I have searched the web, the help files for KDM and this forum for an hour or two by now and all I want to do is add the "JWM" wm to my KDM session list. This wasn't hard in KDE 3, you just edited a config file or made a desktop file in the /opt directory. Unfortunately I cannot find an equivalent way of doing this with KDE 4.
I have also looked at the kdmrc file & associated files within the /usr/share/configs/kdm folder. You used to also be able to do what I want using the KDE configuration centre but again this functionality was removed. I am getting a bit frustrated here and don't know where else to look for an answer.
TIA
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Last edited by MoonSwan (2009-06-04 03:14:19)
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/etc/X11/sessions
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Yay I feel like an idiot! Thank you Xabre.
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And now I feel like a bigger idiot. I created a desktop file in the /etc/X11/sessions directory, correct permissions & all but I still get nothing showing up in the sessions list for the KDM screen. Here's the file I wrote:
cat /etc/X11/sessions/jwm.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=XSession
Exec=/usr/bin/jwm
TryExec=/usr/bin/startx
Name=JWM
Name[xx]=xxJWMxx
Comment=Joe's Window Manager
What am I doing wrong?
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I have finally solved this issue and the only reason I found it was due to chance by looking at the Xorg entry on the Arch wiki.
I was told to add my jwm.desktop file to /etc/X11/sessions. This is, however, incorrect when dealing with KDE 4 it seems. Instead you must add your file to /usr/share/config/kdm/sessions. If you want you can also do a chmod +x to the file, though I don't think its necessary.
Feels nice to solve a long-standing issue I've had with KDE 4. Now to go conquer the world!
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