Xsession and other sessions in GDM

[twelvegates]

Hello,

how can one enable an Xsession or other than Gnome sessions in Fedora-GDM (Gnome display-manager) ?

-Hanspeter

[jtang613]

Try this thread:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...&highlight=KDM

Jason

[twelvegates]

Originally Posted by jtang613

Try this thread:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...&highlight=KDM

No, I don't want KDM! I want GDM!

But I want GDM to offer me other sessions than only the Gnome one.
Other distributions do this as well.

-Hanspeter

[fpoole]

It will only do that if you have installed the software for those sessions. I don't think KDE is installed by default, and XFCE must be installed separately from the OS. Fluxbox and Blackbox, same thing.

[jtang613]

Originally Posted by twelvegates

No, I don't want KDM! I want GDM!

But I want GDM to offer me other sessions than only the Gnome one.
Other distributions do this as well.

-Hanspeter

That's pretty simple. Just install the other Window Managers.

yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
or
yum groupinstall XFCE
or
yum install fluxbox

hth,
Jason

[twelvegates]

Originally Posted by jtang613

That's pretty simple. Just install the other Window Managers.

yum install fluxbox

I have now installed fluxbox. It's package contains /etc/X11/dm/Sessions/fluxbox.desktop and /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/FluxBox.
I have now created the respective files for IceWM.
And now GDM offers Fluxbox as well as IceWM in it's session menu.