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Veljac

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Registered: 2010-01-25

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gdm and xsession help

can someone help me with xsession and gdm?
i`m using gdm as login manager beacouse i have multiple sessions installed (awesome, dwm,xfce,wm)and i have this problem with writing .xsession file.
what should i put in?how should it look like?

boogy

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Registered: 2010-05-20

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Re: gdm and xsession help

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/cool_ … nitrc.html

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Veljac

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Registered: 2010-01-25

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Re: gdm and xsession help

maybe sounds stupit, but can i make the dwm.desktop or xmonad.desktop execute script named start.sh so that when loging from gdm in dwm or xmonad they auto load nm-applet, conky , wallpaper?

Veljac

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Re: gdm and xsession help

Problem solved.I made a litle scrpit xmonad_start.sh that looks like this

nm-applet &
conky ?
nitrogen --restore &
urxvt &
xmonad | dzen2

made it executable with chmod +x, opend usr/share/xsessions the xmonad.desktop file in gedit as root and in line
EXEC= xomnad upt the path to the xmonad_start.sh script.

Sorry for bodering you and boogy thx for help.