A HOWTO document & Bug to report

Toomas Römer tromer at hot.ee
Mon Aug 18 11:48:43 CEST 2003


Hi

It looked good, mainly the same i wrote. Had i had the chance to read yours 
first i wouldn't have had to go through all the trouble.

/toomasr

On Tuesday 19 August 2003 04:42, Paleo wrote:
> On Sunday 17 August 2003 5:31 pm, Toomas Römer wrote:
>
> Hello Toomas. You must have done a fare share of digging around to come up
> with that hack. The information that I used came from about six or seven
> documents, some translated from other languages. Most of them were
> outdated.
>
> However, the overall gist of your hack is similar to the HOWTO that I
> wrote. Please take a look and tell me if there is anything that you would
> add.
>
> Robert
>
> ################################################
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I just subscribed to this mailing list, so i didn't have to chance to
> > read the HOW-TO. But I thought i'll add my way of getting the xfce4 into
> > kdm.
> >
> > Couple of days ago I installed the xfce4 RC2 on SuSe 8.2. I was using the
> > contrib packages for SuSe 8.2 by IIkka Ollakka. I'm running kdm. I had
> > some problems getting an entry to the kdm menu but finally found a
> > solution.
> >
> > One of the main packages created a file /etc/X11/wmsession.d/10XFce4. I
> > moved the file to /usr/X11R6/bin and renamed it to XFce4. Then I edited
> > the kdmrc in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and changed the line
> > starting with SessionTypes= and added a comma and the name of the file i
> > had in /usr/X11R6/bin in my case being XFce4. Now when i restarted kdm i
> > had an entry that was working. So the executable in the /usr/X11R6/bin
> > has to have the corresponding name in the SessionTypes line.
> >
> > /toomasr
> >
> > On Monday 18 August 2003 23:27, Ilkka Ollakka wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 18, Aug 2003, Paleo wrote:
> > > > > Installing XFce4 on SuSE 8.2
> > > > > sonicadmin at earthlink.net
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > > Adding Xfce4 to the KDM menu
> > >
> > > Thanks for that howto,I've been thinking that it should be on rpm's
> > > install script to do that,maybe I get that done on some nice way before
> > > final 4.0 ;)
> >
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