question - login panel session selection

Alexander Toresson alexander.toresson at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 16:42:43 CET 2005


On 12/6/05, Dany Cuyt <dacuy at psb.ugent.be> wrote:
> /etc/X11/sessions doesn't exist. I assume that /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions is
> the same, but there are no *.session files. I rename GNOME but still the
> same
>
> Dany
>
> Andrew Conkling wrote:
>
> >On 12/6/05, Dany Cuyt <dacuy at psb.ugent.be> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>By default, users will use Xfce. This has been accomplished with
> >>.Xclients-default and .Xclients in the $HOME directory of the user.
> >>To make sure that users will use Xfce as desktop environment I would
> >>like to disable Gnome and Kde in the login panel session selection. But
> >>I don't want to remove kde or gnome from the system. Does anyone know
> >>how this can be done?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Hi Dany,
> >Forgive me, as I'm on Windows at the moment.  But the files you're
> >looking for are /etc/X11/sessions/*.session.  You can remove them to
> >remove access from the display managers, but keep in mind that
> >updating the respective RPMs will most likely readd those files.
> >
> >HTH,
> >Andrew
> >
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>

Use locate to find it. the following will probably find it (but may
find other things too):

locate gnome|grep .desktop

you could also try:

locate failsave|grep .desktop

If any of this gives any sensible results, check in the directory if
the other is there too.

Regards, Alexander Toresson



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