gdm with xfce

[Paul Bucalo]

On Tue Nov 16  9:09 , 'Hernux' <hernux at etherac.com.ar> sent:

>Hi,
>
>How can I use xfce 4.2b1 with gdm.. currently, I use startxfce4 to start
>xfce, but if I use gdm, xfce does not appear in sessions list...

Benedikt's reference to the Website shows the manual way to do this for all
distro's. It is, of course, the most correct way to do what you want done.
However, if you are using a Gnome2 favorable distro and/or have Gnome's
'switchdesk' installed, you may be able to do this much easier:

1) Login from GDM into a Gnome2 session. 

2) From the Gnome menu, find Switchdesk and run it. 

3) Choose 'GNOME' as your choice. A dialog box comes up and tells you that this
change will not take effect until you log out of your current DE. 

4) Log out to GDM.

5) Click on 'Session' at the bottom of the GDM login screen and you will find
XFce4 is now a choice. Click on it and login to XFce4.

This may *not* work for all distro's providing Gnome 2.4 or higher, and not
necessarily if you are installing XFce4 'manually'. It works on Redhat systems,
including RHEL and its clones, both with the GUI installer, RPM's and tar
installations from recent builds of XFce.

HTH,

Paul