How to set xfce as default WM when using gdm

Piotr Chmura chmooreck at poczta.onet.pl
Fri Nov 26 11:58:48 CET 2004


Dnia Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:36:51 +0000, Chris Green <chris at areti.co.uk>  
napisał:

> I've just upgraded to Slackware 10 and for whatever reason xdm won't
> work any more (I think it's an IPV6 issue) so I'm using gdm instead.
>
> When starting gdm it allows you to select the window manager you want
> but defaults to gnome.  I'm getting bored with forgetting to select
> xfce and having to shut gnome down and start again.
>
> So how do I set the default to xfce?  I've looked at the gdm
> documentation but it doesn't seem to tell me how to do this.
>
> On closer inspection it would seem that gdm defaults to 'Last' (i.e.
> presumably the last WM that was running) but this just gives me Gnome
> every time.  Maybe I need to 'save' my xfce session somehow/somewhere
> so that it is recorded as my 'Last' session, any idea how I might do
> this?
>

/usr/bin/gdmsetup

or Slackware style (edit file ;-) ):
/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf

good luck :-)
ChmOOrecK



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