Login Managers

mattjgalloway · l33t Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 761 Location: Coventry, UK

Anyone know of a good login manager which I can select what window manager I want to use? I want to be able to select between IceWM and KDE for a bit. (Without having to edit the rc.conf file that is).

I'm using KDM at the moment, which is kinda nice, but can't allow me to choose what WM I want to use.
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Zepp · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 12:34 am Post subject:

mattjgalloway · l33t Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 761 Location: Coventry, UK

Can it do it? I was considering emerging it, but then went to the GDM site and I couldn't see that it could do it... Mmm, i'll go for it. See what happens! Lol!
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El_Presidente_Pufferfish · Veteran Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1179 Location: Seattle

KDM...allows you to select Sessions just fine

mattjgalloway · l33t Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 761 Location: Coventry, UK

Mmmm now I notice that actually...

But I have no options in Login Manager under Control Panel in KDE to change the options of which sessions to show. How can I alter that? Anyway, i've switched to gdm for now.
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ecatmur · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 1:15 am Post subject:

GDM takes sessions from /usr/share/xsessions/, KDM from /usr/kde/3.2/share/apps/kdm/sessions/. Both use the fdo .desktop format for session files, and the session files are inter-compatible. IIRC the session is listed if the TryExec= command exists, or the Exec= command if there is no TryExec= line.