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12-01-2005, 11:01 PM
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Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Vancouver, BC
Distribution: Ubuntu 6.06
Posts: 154
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KDM GUI choice configuration
How can I change what GUI's are listed as options in KDM? I have looked in the kdmrc file but can't find anywhere to specify which GUI's are listed.
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12-02-2005, 02:18 AM
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Registered: Sep 2005
Posts: 244
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Re: KDM GUI choice configuration
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Originally posted by adds2one
How can I change what GUI's are listed as options in KDM? I have looked in the kdmrc file but can't find anywhere to specify which GUI's are listed.
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Go to control center > system administration > Login Manager > Appearance, there you can select the GUI Style, colours, fonts, background etc.. |
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12-02-2005, 02:49 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: N. E. England
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
Posts: 16,298
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You need to create a *.desktop file your the gui you want to start in you kdm sessions directory. On Mandriva its /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions and for Slack it should be somewhere isn /opt/kde (try /opt/kde/share/apps/kdm/sessions).
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12-02-2005, 11:29 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Vancouver, BC
Distribution: Ubuntu 6.06
Posts: 154
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hmm, not sure if you understood my question. Currently in my KDM there are many options for X sessions. I would like to make it so that only the couple X sessions that I use(KDE and FluxBox) are options. This is not something that I can configure in KDE's control panel nor can I find mention of it in the kdmrc file. Anyone know how I can do this?
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12-03-2005, 05:36 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: N. E. England
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
Posts: 16,298
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Remove all the read permissions of those sessions you do not want to see from the directory I indicated above.
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12-05-2005, 01:24 AM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Vancouver, BC
Distribution: Ubuntu 6.06
Posts: 154
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Thanks reddazz, I tried that and rebooted but no change at all in KDM, all the sessions still show up. 
Anyone have any idea what I may be doing wrong or how I can customize my KDM to have only the sessions I use listed? |
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12-05-2005, 06:38 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: N. E. England
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
Posts: 16,298
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Backup those sessions that you don't need and then delete theme from the sessions directory.
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03-25-2006, 09:25 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Houston, TX (usa)
Distribution: MEPIS, Debian, Knoppix,
Posts: 4,727
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I have the reverse problem: I want to add additional desktops (session types) to my choices.
I looked in /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions & there are 47 .desktop files there & all are -rw-r--r--, including, especially, kde.desktop.
What am I missing?
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03-25-2006, 12:29 PM
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Member
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: ath.gr
Distribution: Slackware 11.0 / 2.6.19.1 /Linux Mint
Posts: 124
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Last edited by Ellops; 03-25-2006 at 12:30 PM.
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