Adding other Desktops to Graphical Log in
 

OK, had some success with setting up Mandrake 9 on my in laws computer.

I installed fluxbox, just for me to use (they will stick with KDE nice and easy) - the whole thing is booting straight into X with the graphical login, which lets you choose which desktop environment you want.

How do I add fluxbox to it? I've set it up so that .xinitrc has exec fluxbox in it - but that needs a command line - which I'm not getting.

Any ideas?

On my system, I also linked /opt/fluxbox/bin/fluxbox to /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox and then modified my .xinitrc.

When you are booting right into graphical login, you have too rename the .xinitrc to .xsession

I would soft link it so both xdm and xinit can use it to run the X client programs

ln -s ~/.xinitrc ~/.xsession

I have fluxbox too, but the above didnt work for me because the default display manager ( the thing that logs you in and starts the preferred x clients ) is GDM for redhat. And GDM does not care much ~/.xsession. It finds /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession from /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions. The two ways to circumvent this are

1. change /etc/X11/prefdm to run xdm ( display manager that comes with xfree86 ) which is very standards compliant.

2. change gdm configuration to point to ~/.xsession

I havent done either, because I use runlevel 3 and donot reboot unless I'm compiling a kernel.

HTH