iceWM instead of Gnome

[Le grand pinguin]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:53:44PM +0100, Ingo Lantschner (Lists) wrote:
> Thomas Beckett wrote:
> 
> >ok - with the graphical installer from 
> >http://www.os-cillation.com/article.php?sid=42
> hmh, fine thanks for that idea, it worked fine until ...
> 
> >
> >when it finishes installing - which i gather you have done you need to
> >make a .desktop file to tell GDM that it is installed luckilly they
> >provide an example that works fine for ubuntu:
> >
> >cp /usr/local/share/examples/xfce42.desktop 
> >/usr/share/xsessions/xfce42.desktop
> this file does not exist. More precisely: The path 
> "/usr/local/share/examples" does not exist and on the whole system there 
> is no "xfce42.desktop".
> 
> >when you are next in the GDM, if you goto sessions - xfce42 should be 
> >listed
> well it is not, mostly beause of the above I guess.
> 
> >this is all in the installers documentation, along with some other
> >useful tips such as using the composite extension for drop shadows and
> >transparency (loks very nice but not really suitable for your old
> >hardware) the docs are here:
> >
> >http://www.os-cillation.com/documentation/installers/xfce-installer/
> thanks Tom for this hint, I will go trough it soon.
> 
> Thanks again, and may be you or someone has an idea how to find this 
> "xfce42.desktop", Ingo.

Hi Ingo, 

just use mine :-)
There's no language support (you won't see the session name in your
prefered language) but other than this it works fine. Just drop the
file into '/etc/dm/Sessions' and restart your Display Manager:

#----- file: xfce4.desktop --------------------------------------------

[Desktop Entry]
Name=XFce4
Comment=XFce4 window manager (version 4.2)alpha
Exec=/usr/local/bin/xfce4-session
Type=Application

#----- End file -------------------------------------------------------


HTH RalfD

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