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cookiecaper

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[SOLVED] KDE 4.6 launching broken by default on GDM

While KDM seems to have picked up on new Xsession/desktop files for launching KDE, GDM now just gives me "GNOME" and "Awesome" as choices for user session. I would like to fix this pretty quickly if possible. Thanks in advance.

I haven't seen this one yet, so hopefully it's not lost in the crowd, sorry if it's a dupe.

Last edited by cookiecaper (2011-01-27 21:12:09)

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE 4.6 launching broken by default on GDM

Not sure what you do with gdm, but you could try kdm - the new session is now called kde-plasmasession or something similar (I can't remember...).

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cookiecaper

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE 4.6 launching broken by default on GDM

Thanks. KDM did work, but I wanted to use GDM.

I figured out a workaround. KDE's new session files are in /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions. So,

# cp /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/kde* /usr/share/xsessions

or ln or mv whatever your prefer. This gives me the new session options in GDM.

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE 4.6 launching broken by default on GDM

Glad you got it working, fancy marking this as solved?

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE 4.6 launching broken by default on GDM

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Last edited by silent (2013-08-21 08:47:10)