[plug] RH 7.3 login menu

[Steege, Phil E]

John

I got this from Google groups.  I haven't tried it myself, so you will have
to do it at your own risk.

You must do three things:
1) Install window manager packages. Most store the executable in
/usr/X11R6/bin  this path should be on your path.

2) Add the window Managers to the Login Manager. (Logged in as root)
    KDE Menu -> Settings -> Applications -. Login Manager
    Add the window managers to the selection list

3) Modify Xsession File
The file you must modify is:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
This script is called by kdm with the parameter being passed the window
manager
you choose from the start up screen.  Mine is below.  I moved the the check
for
Xresources to the begining then I added to the case statement the different
exec commands for the window managers.  If you move the check for .Xseesion
to
the front you give users a chance to override your window manager.  I would
do
this I would add a ase User Defined which the body of the case was the
xsession
code. that way if they break it. WM is uninstalled you can still get to
failsafe mode.

#!/bin/sh
# $XConsortium: Xsession /main/10 1995/12/18 18:21:28 gildea $

# redirect errors to a file in user's home directory if we can
for errfile in "$HOME/.xsession-errors" "${TMPDIR-/tmp}/xses-$USER"
"/tmp/xses-$USER"
do
 if ( cp /dev/null "$errfile" 2> /dev/null )
 then
  chmod 600 "$errfile"
  exec > "$errfile" 2>&1
  break
 fi
done

resources=$HOME/.Xresources

if [ -f "$resources" ]; then
 xrdb -load "$resources"
fi

case $# in
1)
 case $1 in
 failsafe)
  exec xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0
  ;;
 kwm)
  exec kwm
  ;;
 piewm)
  exec piewm
  ;;
 Afterstep)
  exec afterstep
  ;;
 tvtwm)
  exec tvtwm
  ;;
 fvwm95)
  exec fvwm95
  ;;
 fvwm)
  exec fvwm2
  ;;

 gnome)
  exec gnome-wm
  ;;

 esac
esac

startup=$HOME/.xsession

if [ -f "$startup" ]; then
 exec "$startup"
else
 exec xsm
fi

-----Original Message-----
From: John Knight [mailto:anarchist_tomato at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 12:31 AM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: RE: [plug] RH 7.3 login menu


Sorry fellers, I tried to RTFM, but I couldn't really find what I was after.

You know the login screen for runlevel 5 in RH 7.3? How do I put blackbox 
and icewm in there? I've tried just adding their names in the session part 
of the Login Manager in KDE's Control Centre, which I was sure wouldn't work

but actually did work for windowmaker! It certaintly isn't working for 
blackbox and icewm though, anyone out there able to give advice?

cheers!
John


Make lunch, not war.


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