Starting xfce4 from xdm?

[Pasi Orovuo]

If it's possible for you to make Xfce the default destop environment for 
all users in your system, this can be achieved by creating a new file 
"xfce-4.2.0" under /etc/X11/Sessions:


pasi at cain Sessions $ cat /etc/X11/Sessions/xfce-4.2.0
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/startxfce4


Remember +x permissions.

Then, in your /etc/rc.conf add (or modify) the XSESSION environment 
variable:

XSESSION="xfce-4.2.0"

This is how I've solved this in my Gentoo installation.

-Pasi


Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:50:37 +0300
> Buck <xfce at fatcat.ru> wrote:
> 
> 
>>There might be two files that should be present, and they both should
>>reside in your home directory.
>>.xsession that contains
>>#/bin/bash
>>/path/to/startxfce4
>>
>>and .xinitrc
>>that just contains
>>startxfce4
>>
>>You should make .xsession executable.
>>
>>Well, does this help?
> 
> 
> Sorry, but no, it doesn't - I still get twm.
> 
> prh at wstn ~ $ cat /home/prh/.xsession
> #!/bin/bash
> /usr/bin/startxfce4
> prh at wstn ~ $ cat /home/prh/.xinitrc
> startxfce4
> prh at wstn ~ $ ls -l .x*
> -rw-r--r--  1 prh users    11 Mar 21 18:00 .xinitrc
> -rw-r--r--  1 prh users 10187 Mar 19 11:17 .xscreensaver
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 prh users    32 Mar 21 17:23 .xsession
> -rw-------  1 prh users     0 Mar 21 18:01 .xsession-errors
> 
> You see why I've resorted to bothering you good people with my
> problem...
>