On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Francois Colonna wrote:
Hello
I have installed fluxbox.
I do not known how to make it replace Gnome or Kde when starting an
Xsession.
Can somebody help ?
Add a .desktop file into /usr/share/xsessions/ that refers to a script
which gets run as the 'session', we add one in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/ but
then we also modify the main /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession script to call our
session stuff directly -- to avoid that you can add a suitable script in
/usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.session-name see the Xsession script
for details:
...
# now, we see if xdm/gdm/kdm has asked for a specific environment
case $# in
1)
if [ -x "$SWITCHDESKPATH/Xclients.$1" ]; then
exec -l $SHELL -c "$SWITCHDESKPATH/Xclients.$1";
fi;
...
In case anyomne wonders why we don't (currently) simply use this, we don't
because unlike all the 'standard' sessions, that won't get run in the
right environment. e.g. on SL4 the gnome session is run using:
...
gnome)
exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSH_AGENT $DBUS_LAUNCH gnome-session"
;;
...
and similarly for kde etc. Obviously we want our extra sessions to be run
in a similar way too under dbus under ssh-agent. In previous versions it
was just ssh-agent we cared about, I don't claim to understand dbus but I
guess it must be important for something...
-- Jon
