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zajca

Member

From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2008-11-24

Posts: 35

Awesome won't show in lightDM

Hi,
I want to add awesome entry to lightDM. So I've installed awesome and create /usr/share/xsessions/awesome.desktop as it should be.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Awesome
Comment=Tiling Window Manager
Type=Application
Exec=/usr/bin/awesome
TryExec=/usr/bin/awesome

but it's not there. Did I miss some step?

andrew_the_p

Member

From: BY

Registered: 2015-03-17

Posts: 16

Re: Awesome won't show in lightDM

So I've installed awesome and create /usr/share/xsessions/awesome.desktop as it should be.

It's not clear why do you need to create this file after installation. Because awesome package already have it.

Did I miss some step?

It looks valid. The only reason why session menu do not have new item - the path "/usr/bin/awesome" is not valid.
You need to restart lightdm to see changes, but I think you already did it.

Last edited by andrew_the_p (2015-06-22 05:48:59)

Chazza

Wiki Maintainer

Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 506

Re: Awesome won't show in lightDM

The awesome package definitely provides the awesome.desktop file. You should just re-install the package. For reference, here is the file provided by the package:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=awesome
Comment=Highly configurable framework window manager
TryExec=awesome
Exec=awesome
Type=Application