[rhelv6-list] Proper way to add to RHEL6's GDM?

[Tom G. Christensen]

On 18/05/12 21:36, vincent at cojot.name wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> For the record, i'd like to say that I found a workaround...
> I Added this file:
> # cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
> DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
>
> This effectively drops the simple gdm greeter and switches to the kdm
> greeter which allows one to select a different X Session.. Problem solved.	
>
> So in order to allow choosing a different Xsession (namely
> /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/OpenWin ), I had to drop gdm and use kdm, thereby
> introducing a dependency upon KDE (sigh).
>
> I'm a little bit disappointed.. is there no other (GDM) way to do that?
>
On my RHEL6 system there is no /etc/X11/gdm directory, instead GDM 
sessions are defined in /usr/share/xsessions.

I've used it to create a couple of custom sessions, one that executes 
~/.Xclients like it was done in previous RHEL releases, and one that 
runs the gnome-session using the real openssh agent instead of using the 
poor substitute provided by gnome-keyring.

-tgc


> Best regards,
>
> Vincent
>
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, vincent at cojot.name wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Philip Durbin wrote:
>>
>>>> Under RHEL4/5, it was just a matter of adding
>>>> stuff under /etc/X11/* as in:
>>>> /etc/X11/dm/Sessions/OpenWindows.desktop
>>>> /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/OpenWin
>>>
>>> For example:
>>> /usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop
>>>
>>> Phil
>>>
>>
>> Hi Phil,
>
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