Why can't I get a tiling WM listed in KDM?

imag1narynumber · 2008-10-25 21:29:13

I've included exec dwm or exec xmonad in my .xinitrc. I've added dwm.desktop or xmonad.desktop in /usr/share/xsessions

As example:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=XSession
Exec=/usr/bin/dwm
TryExec=/usr/bin/dwm
Name=DWM
Comment=DWM window manager

Yet I've not gotten either to show in my session list in KDM. Any thoughts?

moljac024 · 2008-10-25 23:34:00

Maybe try /etc/X11/sessions

imag1narynumber · 2008-10-26 00:18:51

Okay, I added that dwm.desktop file to /etc/X11/sessions/ and nothing.

moljac024 · 2008-10-26 08:27:11

Maybe try GDM. If it shows up there, then it's something KDM related, if it doesn't show up, then compare your dwm.desktop to other .desktop files for X sessions. You must have an error somewhere then.

Last edited by moljac024 (2008-10-26 08:29:53)

bender02 · 2008-10-26 08:38:21

Look at /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc (for kde4)

SessionsDirs=/usr/share/config/kdm/sessions,/usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions

robertp · 2008-10-26 08:53:17

bender02 wrote:

Look at /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc (for kde4)
SessionsDirs=/usr/share/config/kdm/sessions,/usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions

You are right but configuration files should NEVER be placed in /usr directory. I don't understand why KDE developers did this but it is a violation of rules.

@imag1narynumber: Switch to GDM as suggested moljac024. It should use sessions from /etc/X11/sessions.

bender02 · 2008-10-26 09:31:10

I don't know why, since it's so, I'd just suggest editing kdmrc and adding /etc/X11/sessions directory to the list. By the way, kdmrc is treated as a config file by pacman (it's preserved on updates).

EDIT: There's plenty of other kde config files in /usr/share/config, so I guess if one uses kde, better get used to the kde devs' quirk of placing config files to weird places...

Last edited by bender02 (2008-10-26 09:34:20)

imag1narynumber · 2008-10-26 15:11:08

Excellent, thanks! I added dwm.desktop and xmonad.desktop to the enormous list of desktops in /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/. Explains why PekWM and awesome were listed so readily and not these.

Llama · 2008-11-05 16:46:34

Probably a dumb question: imag1narynumber, where did you get your xmonad.desktop file in the first place?

imag1narynumber · 2008-11-05 23:23:09

Llama, I just opened a .desktop file that I knew was good and worked off of that. The xmonad.hs file I got off of the website was outdated, but their mailing list was very helpful and it looks like they're going to update things a bit.

DonVla · 2009-01-28 09:44:48

explicitly:
append "/usr/share/xsessions,/etc/X11/sessions" in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc (about line 280):

# The directories containing session type definitions in .desktop format,
# ordered by falling priority.
# Default is "/usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions"
SessionsDirs=/usr/share/config/kdm/sessions,/usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions,/usr/share/xsessions,/etc/X11/sessions

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Why can't I get a tiling WM listed in KDM?

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