KDM gets it's list of windowmanagers from the files in /etc/X11/wmsession.d
It sounds like you just need to make a new gnome entry in this directory. The format
of these is pretty
simple, just copy one of the others and change the name= and exec= lines to point to
the new gnome
installation.
Good luck.
In [expert] How does kdm get the list of window managers for login?, on Sat, 10 Feb
2001, Neal Lippman wrote:
> Up until a few minutes ago, when I booted my system, kdm would give me an
> option of several windows managers at login time, including KDE (my
> default) and gnome.
>
> I just installed Helix gnome via the automated installer, and selected the
> option to keep my current login manager (eg kdm). Now, on reboot, gnome no
> longer appears as a choice of login (sort of a bummer given that I just
> spent all that time downloading it!).
>
> Does anyone know where kdm gets the list of window managers for loging in
> and how I can fix this? (I know I can boot to rl 3 and manually run gdm as
> root, but that defeats the idea of booting to rl5 and having this happen
> automatically).
>
> Thanks.
> Neal
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