Folks,
I've got a fresh install of Mandrake 7.0, with GNOME, enlightenment, and
WindowMaker installed, but no KDE. Everything works fine, with the
following exception:
GDM is managing my display. If I log in normally, it puts me into
GNOME environment (with E). I don't want this behavior. So, I did the
following:
cd /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions
ln -sf ../../xdm/Xsession Default
chmod +x Default
This now looks at the user's ~/.xsession file to figure out which window
mgr/x clients, et al. to run. This is best, since it lets my users
choose their individual wmgrs.
The setup works fine, UNTIL I REBOOT THE SYSTEM. When I reboot,
something (I'm guessing gdm itself) removes my link above, and replaces
it with the original.
That is, the /etc/X11/gdm/Session/Default link is now pointing once
again to Gnome, and /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession is once again set back to 0644
premissions.
# ls -l /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/Default
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Mar 20 22:56
/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/Default -> Gnome*
# ls -l /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1508 Feb 19 18:14
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
What's up with that? What is doing this, and how do I make it stop?
One other thing: I've checked for the ~/.gnome/gdm file on several
accounts, and it never exists, so it's not remembering the previous
session that way.
-Erik
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