[K12OSN] Isolating IcewWM as the default session in 4.4

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Wed Aug 24 23:17:28 UTC 2005


David Trask wrote:
> Isolating IcewWM as the default session in 4.4...how?  I used to go into
> /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions and disable the other sessions...such as Gnome and
> KDE.  How do I do it now?  Things look very different in K12LTSP 4.4 from
> that perspective.  I want IceWM as the default session for all and the
> only other one I want to show is "Reset your Desktop".  Any ideas?  School
> starts next week so I need answers pretty quickly on this one.
>

I'm pretty sure this works, but not tested on the production box here at
work ;-)

1) make Gnome & KDE sessions inaccessible:

	cd /usr/share/xsessions/
	chmod a-wrx kde.desktop gnome.desktop


2) edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and make the default icewm.desktop


	DefaultSession=icewm.desktop



-Eric
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