gdm with xfce

[Erick]

You may need to save this as ~/gdm/sessions/XFce4.desktop before XFCE
will appear as a session choice:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=XSession
Exec=startxfce4
TryExec=startxfce4
Name=XFce4
Comment=Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for various *NIX
systems.


On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 10:56, Paul Bucalo wrote:
> 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
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