Re: [gdm-list] Adding sessions to gdm in FreeBSD

[Bill Smith <bill rakupottery org uk>]

Brian Cameron wrote:
> Bill Smith wrote:
>
> Note section 5.1 of the GDM manual:
>
>   http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/docs/2.16/configuration.html
>
> I think the correct location of the kde.desktop file is 
> /usr/share/xsessions or one of the other directories in your
> SessionDesktopDir GDM configuration variable.  By default, this is
>
> #SessionDesktopDir=/etc/X11/sessions/:/etc/X11/dm/Sessions/:/usr/share/gdm/Built 
>
> InSessions/:/usr/share/xsessions/
>
> So, I don't think the directory /usr/local/etc/gdm/Sessions is the right
> directory unless your distro puts this directory in the above
> SessionDesktopDir configuration setting.
>
> I'd try moving it to one of the above directories.  I think 
> /usr/share/xsessions is the most standard location to put it.
Thanks for those pointers, it looks like it is
/usr/local/share/gnome/xsessions
this seems to work, but on logging out I get a kernel panic and 
spontaneous reboot, so I am going to chase it up with freebsd-gnome as 
it seems to be bsd specific...
cheers

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Bill