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bbarcher

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From: Poland

Registered: 2014-02-27

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KDE and LXDE sessions not showing up in GDM

I've got a working Gnome Desktop environment and recently installed the two DE's for testing purposes

pacman -S lxde-common openbox kdebase

I still get only the Gnome set of sessions at GDM login. I tried adding

/home/<mydefaultuser/.xinitrc:
exec gnome-session
exec startlxde
exec startkde

It didn't help.

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Gcool

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Registered: 2011-08-16

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Re: KDE and LXDE sessions not showing up in GDM

If I'm not mistaken, GDM polls /usr/share/xessions for relevant .desktop files (and not your .xinitrc). See here for some more info.

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bbarcher

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From: Poland

Registered: 2014-02-27

Posts: 174

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Re: KDE and LXDE sessions not showing up in GDM

Thanks. This should do. It's weird though. On other distros new entries appear automatically after installing a new desktop environment. Is Arch different or did I do something wrong while installing the DE's?

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