A HOWTO document & Bug to report

[Ilkka Ollakka]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:56:35PM -0500, Scott Jones wrote:
> On Monday 18 August 2003 13:49, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 
> > > When you login into your system and select a window manager, the
> > > Linux system will call for the needed binaries in /usr/X11R6/bin/.
> > > After you have copied the startxfce4 script in one of the two
> > > above-mentioned manners, you will need to create a link from that
> > > script's new location to the the /usr/X11R6/bin/ directory.
> >
> > I can't really believe this is required. Surely the path for the
> > display manager is not limited to /usr/X11R6/bin?
> 
> No, it isn't.  SuSE does, however, tend to put or symlink window manager 
> startup scripts there.
> 

There's two ways that suse uses to make those menus for display 
managers. gdm/wdm/xdm(not tested) uses wmlist script from /usr/X11/bin/ 
which test which windowmanagers exists in path,and generates menus based 
on that script (quite a simple script,I like it allready ;) . kdm seems 
to use it own kdmrc, and haven't found any other way to add 
windowmanager to kdm,than adding it to SessioType field on kdmrc. 

I made some hacking on suse rpm's postins scripts last night and made 
preliminary support on xfce-utils that add XFce4 on those 
kdm/wdm/gdm/xdm menus.


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Ilkka Ollakka
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