Re: [gdm-list] How to add a window manager in GDM (Fedora 13)?

[Johnny <yggdrasil gmx co uk>]

Ray Strode <halfline gmail com> writes:

Thanks,
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Johnny <yggdrasil gmx co uk> wrote:
>>> The menu should show up on the bottom panel after you select a user.
>>> Note you won't see it if you have password less login (which is a bug,
>>> but we haven't fixed it yet), since with passwordless login you're
>>> authenticated immediately after selecting your username.
>>>
>> Thanks for the confirmation I am on the right track! However, I don't
>> get any dropdown menu to choose window managers; the only choices I get
>> after selecting user is 'Keyboard' and 'Language'. Is there some option
>> where I have to enable 'Session'?
> No, there's no option that I know of.
>
> It will hide the menu if it only thinks there is one choice, though.
>
> What happens if you take gnome.desktop that's already in
> /usr/share/xsessions and copy it to a new filename (say
> gnome2.desktop) then edit the Name to be GNOME 2.
>
> Does it show up then with two items in the list?

Yes, indeed - a second Gnome choice appears! I then tried changing just
the file content to stumpwm (i.e. filename still gnome2.desktop) as well
as changing also the filename, but in both cases the 'session' menu
disappears again, defaulting to gnome only? 

stumpwm is however in /usr/local/bin while gnome-session is in /usr/bin,
maybe I should try the whole pathname...

Ok, I tried that and that did the trick! Not sure though why, does this
mean that /usr/local/bin is not in the search path for gdm and can this
be set?

Thanks for the smart fault localisation method, that's really the way to
go! 

/Johnny