Collins Richey
2005-Mar-03 23:07 UTC
[Centos] gdm and new /etc/X11/dm/Session/.desktop files
The new way to add sessions to the gdm menu is to add a .desktop file to /etc/X11/dm/Sessions. I have a need to get an IceWM session working completely for using CentOS on less capable machines that won''t run GNOME or KDE very well. I''ve added an icewm.desktop file, and gdm allows me to startup IceWM with no problems. There is one wrinkle remaning. I want to startup xscreensaver along with IceWM, and I can''t find a way to do this. With older approaches to starting a desktop manager, I could put something like ''xscreensaver -nosplash & icewm-session'' in the appropriate startup file, and everything was cool. I''ve tried adding a ~/Desktop/Autostart/xscreensaver file, but apparrently icewm-session isn''t sophisticated enough to recognize this. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- Collins