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Thoreau
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 Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 2:02 pm Post subject: KDE missing from session list |
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So I loged out of gnome, after upgrading to 2.6, and i found that my KDE was no longer on the sessions list. So i thought..meh, okay i'll re-emerge KDE, no big deal. That still didn't work. It didn't emerge anything, it took about 5 minutes and then it was done. Any hints? I have my USE flags to include "qt kde" Thanks for your help  |
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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| You're barking up the wrong tree. The GDM included with GNOME 2.6 places its session files in a different place, and uses a different format for session files. If you're willing to wait until I go home for lunch, I'll post more detailed information. |
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Thoreau
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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yeah i'm willing to wait. I get paid by the hour  |
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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OK, here's the info you need. First, GDM for GNOME 2.6 keeps session files in /usr/share/xsessions. When you change to that directory, open up gnome.desktop in less. You'll see something similar to this:
| Code: | [Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=GNOME
Comment=This session logs you into GNOME
Exec=gnome-session
TryExec=gnome-session
# no icon yet, only the top three are currently used
Icon=
Type=Application |
So, with this in mind, you want to create similar .desktop file for KDE. Do the following:
| Code: | | nano -w /usr/share/xsessions/kde.desktop |
Insert the following text:
| Code: | [Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=KDE
Comment=This session logs you into KDE
Exec=startkde
TryExec=startkde
# no icon yet, only the top three are currently used
Icon=
Type=Application |
Then save the file, restart GDM with /etc/init.d/xdm restart, and you should be able to login to KDE now. Hope this helps. |
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Thoreau
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| Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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that doesn't work either. My gnome.desktop is filled with (what looks like to me)different lang support???. It's pretty long, but i'll post it anywho.
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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=GNOME
Name[az]=GNOME
Name[be]=GNOME
Name[ca]=GNOME
Name[cs]=GNOME
Name[cy]=GNOME
Name[da]=Gnome
Name[de]=GNOME
Name[el]=GNOME
Name[es]=GNOME
Name[et]=GNOME
Name[fi]=Gnome
Name[fr]=GNOME
Name[he]=GNOME
Name[hi]=गनोम
Name[hu]=GNOME
Name[it]=GNOME
Name[ja]=GNOME
Name[ko]=그놈
Name[lt]=GNOME
Name[mn]=ГНОМЕ
Name[ms]=GNOME
Name[nl]=GNOME
Name[nn]=GNOME
Name[no]=GNOME
Name[pl]=GNOME
Name[pt]=GNOME
Name[pt_BR]=GNOME
Name[ro]=GNOME
Name[ru]=GNOME
Name[sk]=GNOME
Name[sl]=GNOME
Name[sq]=GNOME
Name[sr]=Гном
Name[sr@Latn]=Gnom
Name[sv]=GNOME
Name[tr]=GNOME
Name[uk]=GNOME
Name[vi]=GNOME
Name[wa]=GNOME
Name[zh_CN]=GNOME
Name[zh_TW]=GNOME
Comment=This session logs you into GNOME
Comment[az]=Bu iclas sizi GNOME'a daxil edəcək
Comment[be]=Гэтая сэсыя завядзе вас у GNOME
Comment[ca]=Aquesta sessió entra en GNOME
Comment[cs]=Toto sezení vás přihlásí do GNOME
Comment[cy]=Mae'r sesiwn hwn yn eich mewngofnodi i GNOME
Comment[da]=Denne session logger dig på Gnome
Comment[de]=Diese Sitzung meldet Sie an GNOME an
Comment[el]=Αυτή η συνεδρία σας εισάγει στο GNOME
Comment[es]=Con esta sesión accede a GNOME
Comment[fi]=Tämä istunto kirjaa sisään Gnomeen
Comment[fr]=Cette session vous connectera dans GNOME
Comment[he]=תצורת הפעלה זו מחברת אותך ל GNOME
Comment[hi]=यह सत्र गनोम में लॉगिन होगा
Comment[hu]=Ez a környezet a GNOME-ba jelentkeztet be
Comment[it]=Sessione di lavoro con GNOME
Comment[ja]=GNOME セッションにログインします
Comment[ko]=GNOME세션으로 로그인합니다
Comment[lt]=i sesija prijungia Jus į GNOME
Comment[mn]=Энэ суултаар та ГНОМЕ руу нэвтрэнэ.
Comment[ms]=Sesi ini akan log anda ke GNOME
Comment[nl]=Deze sessie meldt u aan bij GNOME
Comment[nn]=Denne økta loggar på GNOME
Comment[no]=Denne sesjonen logger deg inn til GNOME
Comment[pl]=Sesja logowania do GNOME
Comment[pt]=Esta sessão inicia-o no GNOME
Comment[pt_BR]=Logar no ambiente GNOME
Comment[ro]=Această sesiune vă va loga în GNOME
Comment[ru]=Начать сеанс GNOME
Comment[sk]=Toto sedenie vás prihlási do prostredia GNOME
Comment[sl]=Ta seja vas prijavi v GNOMe
Comment[sq]=Kjo seancë do t'ju fusë në GNOME
Comment[sr]=Ова сесија вас пријављује на Гнома
Comment[sr@Latn]=Ova sesija vas prijavljuje na Gnoma
Comment[sv]=Denna session loggar in dig i GNOME
Comment[tr]=Bu oturum ile GNOME'a giriş yaparsınız
Comment[uk]=Сеанс роботи в середовищі GNOME
Comment[vi]=Session này cho bạn đăng nhập vào GNOME
Comment[zh_CN]=此会话使您登录到 GNOME
Comment[zh_TW]=選取這個作業階段後會進入 GNOME 環境
Exec=gnome-session
TryExec=gnome-session
# no icon yet, only the top three are currently used
Icon=
Type=Application
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can i just get rid of the other langs?? since i'm only going to use this in English??
here's my xmd config
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#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-base/xfree/files/4.3.0/xdm.start,v 1.4 2004/03/06 04:20:10 vapier Exp $
# This is here to serve as a note to myself, and future developers.
#
# Any Display manager (gdm,kdm,xdm) have the following problem: if
# it is started before any getty, and no vt is specified, it will
# usually run on vt2. When the getty on vt2 then starts, and the
# DM is already started, the getty will take control of the keyboard,
# leaving us with a "dead" keyboard.
#
# Resolution: add the following line to /etc/inittab
#
# x:a:once:/etc/X11/startDM.sh
#
# and have /etc/X11/startDM.sh start the DM in daemon mode if
# a lock is present (with the info of what DM should be started),
# else just fall through.
#
# How this basically works, is the "a" runlevel is a additional
# runlevel that you can use to fork processes with init, but the
# runlevel never gets changed to this runlevel. Along with the "a"
# runlevel, the "once" key word means that startDM.sh will only be
# run when we specify it to run, thus eliminating respawning
# startDM.sh when "xdm" is not added to the default runleve, as was
# done previously.
#
# This script then just calls "tellinit a", and init will run
# /etc/X11/startDM.sh after the current runlevel completes (this
# script should only be added to the actual runlevel the user is
# using).
#
# Martin Schlemmer
# aka Azarah
# 04 March 2002
# Start X Font Server before X
depend() {
use xfs hotplug
}
setup_dm() {
source /etc/profile.env
export PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:${ROOTPATH}"
case "$(echo ${DISPLAYMANAGER} | awk '{ print toupper($1) }')" in
KDM|KDE|KDE2|KDE3)
EXE="$(which kdm)"
;;
ENTRANCE*)
EXE="$(which entranced)"
;;
GDM|GNOME)
EXE=/usr/bin/gdm
;;
WDM)
EXE=/usr/bin/wdm
;;
*)
EXE=/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm
;;
esac
test ! -x "${EXE}" && EXE=/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm
SERVICE="${EXE##*/}"
}
start() {
setup_dm
ebegin "Setting up ${SERVICE}"
#save the prefered DM
save_options "service" "${EXE}"
#tell init to run /etc/X11/startDM.sh after current
#runlevel is finished (should *not* be in the "boot"
# runlevel).
/sbin/telinit a &>/dev/null
eend 0
}
stop() {
local retval=0
local curvt="$(fgconsole)"
local myexe="$(get_options "service")"
local myservice="${myexe##*/}"
ebegin "Stopping ${myservice}"
rm -f ${svcdir}/options/xdm/service
if [ "$(ps -A | grep -e "${myservice}")" ]
then
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \
--exe ${myexe} &>/dev/null
retval=$?
else
retval=1
fi
#switch back to original vt
chvt "${curvt}" &>/dev/null
eend ${retval} "Error stopping ${myservice}."
return ${retval}
}
# vim:ts=4
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D'oh! here's my kde.desktop also
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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=KDE
Comment=This session logs you into KDE
Exec=startkde
TryExec=startkde
# no icon yet, only the top three are currently used
Icon=
Type=Application
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Stormy Eyes
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| Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Thoreau wrote: | | that doesn't work either. My gnome.desktop is filled with (what looks like to me)different lang support???. It's pretty long, but i'll post it anyhow. can i just get rid of the other langs?? since i'm only going to use this in English?? |
Yes, you can. I didn't paste in the i18n stuff because it wasn't relevant.
| Thoreau wrote: | | here's my xdm config |
xdm config? Are you using GDM or not?
| Thoreau wrote: | | D'oh! here's my kde.desktop also |
That kde.desktop should have worked. You might have had to specify the exact path to startkde, but aside from that it should have worked. |
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Thoreau
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| Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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I am using GDM here's the snipit of my rc.conf
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# What display manager do you use ? [ xdm | gdm | kdm | entrance ]
DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm"
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I just followed your lead with the | Code: | | /etc/init.d/xdm restart |
deal |
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Stormy Eyes
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| Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Thoreau wrote: | | I am using GDM here's the snipit of my rc.conf |
That all looks right. I wonder if I might have been wrong to put startkde in kde.desktop. At a shell prompt, type "startkde" and then hit tab; I want to know if bash tries to complete it, and how. It could be that KDE 3.2 uses startkde-3.2 instead of plain startkde, especially if you upgraded from an earlier version. |
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Thoreau
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| Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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nope it doesn't finish it. When i hit tab i get "would you like to see all 14* possible" i hit yes. i know KDE is installed because i typed in
now i'm running the KDE desktop within the Gnome desktop. 
very odd |
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Stormy Eyes
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| Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Thoreau wrote: | | nope it doesn't finish it. When i hit tab i get "would you like to see all 14* possible" i hit yes. |
Would you please post the 14* possible the shell returned? |
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Thoreau
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| Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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here you go
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._cfg0000_DIR_COLORS default gtk make.conf.example opt sgml
._cfg0000_fstab devfs.d gtk-2.0 make.conf~ pam.d shadow
._cfg0000_gentoo-release devfsd.conf hostname make.globals pango shadow-
._cfg0000_group dhcpc hosts make.profile paper.config shells
._cfg0000_inputrc dispatch-conf.conf hotplug man.conf passwd skel
._cfg0000_mailer.conf domainname hotplug.d mime-magic passwd- sound
._cfg0000_rc.conf env.d imlib mime-magic.dat profile ssh
._cfg0001_gentoo-release esd init.d modprobe.conf profile.d ssl
.pwd.lock etc-update.conf inittab modprobe.conf.old profile.env ssmtp
DIR_COLORS fam.conf inputrc modprobe.devfs proftpd svgalib
X11 fdprm ioctl.save modprobe.devfs.old protocols sysctl.conf
adjtime filesystems issue modules.autoload.d pwdb.conf syslog-ng
apm firestarter issue.logo modules.conf rc.conf t1lib
bonobo-activation fonts ld.so.cache modules.conf.old resolv.conf terminfo
conf.d fstab ld.so.conf modules.d resolv.conf.sv updatedb.conf
cron.d gconf limits modules.devfs rmt wget
cron.daily gentoo-release localtime mplayer.conf rpc xinetd.d
cron.hourly gimp login.access mtab rsync xml
cron.monthly gnome-vfs-2.0 login.defs nanorc runlevels xpdfrc
cron.weekly gnome-vfs-mime-magic logrotate.d networks samba yp.conf
crontab gpm lynx nscd.conf scrollkeeper.conf yp.conf.sv
csh.cshrc group mail nsswitch.conf securetty
csh.env group- mailcap ntp.conf security
csh.login gshadow mailer.conf ntp.conf.sv serial.conf
cups gshadow- make.conf openoffice services
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| Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Fuck me and marry me young; you shouldn't have gotten those results if you have a startkde script on your system. Since I don't use KDE, I suspect that I'm getting in over my head here. Did you try emerging KDE again? |
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Thoreau
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| Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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yeah i did, I know it didn't emerge it all. It only took 10 minutes, compared to the 1st time i emerged it (7-8 hours)
i mean, i'm happy with Gnome, but i went to all that work to emerge KDE and can only use it within Gnome?
Thank you very much for your help!! |
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Don't know if you solved this already, but:
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So, with this in mind, you want to create similar .desktop file for KDE. Do the following:
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nano -w /usr/share/xsessions/kde.desktop
Insert the following text:
Code:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=KDE
Comment=This session logs you into KDE
Exec=startkde
TryExec=startkde
# no icon yet, only the top three are currently used
Icon=
Type=Application
Then save the file, restart GDM with /etc/init.d/xdm restart, and you should be able to login to KDE now. Hope this helps.
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This works for me. The thing I had to do was make sure that the file permissions matched exactly what the permissions are of the gnome.desktop file.
Then when you get to GDM, you only need to make sure that you have a KDE entry under sessions.
Hope this helps you. |
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| Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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yeah, realy thx!
with litle edditing of your solution I got waimea, kahakai and enlightenment back on my list!
thx
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thx for this fix  |
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This doesn't seem to work for me. I added the kde.desktop file to /usr/share/xsessions, made sure it had identical permissions to the existing gnome.desktop file (rwxr-xr-x root root), and no dice. KDE does not show up as a choice in the sessions menu.
Oddly, one user acccount on the machine, mine, starts kde successfully when I select the default session option in gdm. All other users, including root, get dumped into a failsafe session. On the one account where kde works, I am also getting notes in /var/log/messages to the effect:
May 25 12:18:53 trogdor gdmgreeter[27745]: No default session link found. Using Failsafe GNOME.
when I _stop_ kde (accompanied by a system beep), and also when I restart xdm. All of this, naturally, happened after I "upgraded" to gdm 2.4.4.7-r1. I have also tried uncommenting the following line in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, with no apparent effect:
SessionDesktopDir=/etc/X11/sessions/:/etc/X11/dm/Sessions/:/usr/share/xsessions/
Along with attempting to force the kde.desktop file to be the default:
DefaultSession=kde.desktop
Again, no apparent effect.
I do not have gnome installed on my system, just KDE. This problem exists on several machines, with different hardware and configs, all running KDE only. |
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject: gdm config |
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The .desktop files are to be added in '/etc/X11/dm/Sessions' dir.
There is a simple custom.desktop file to be copied and edited:
(following is an example for kde.desktop)
Name=KDE
Exec=/usr/kde/3.2/bin/startkde
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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gringotts wrote:
> The .desktop files are to be added in '/etc/X11/dm/Sessions' dir.
[...etc...]
Thanks. This worked for me: KDE appeared in my sessions menu, and I was able to log into a KDE session just fine. It did not, however, fix the annoying beep and accomanying "No default session link found." entry in /var/log/messages.
I might just switch to KDM and be done with it. The more Gnome advances, the more I like KDE... |
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I might just switch to KDM and be done with it. The more Gnome advances, the more I like KDE... |
Full ACK. I am also searching for my kde sessions in gdm at the moment 
Did the following to clean the mess a bit:
moved gnome.desktop from /usr/share/xsessions to /etc/X11/dm/Sessions
removed /usr/share/xsessions
ln -s /etc/X11/dm/sessions /usr/share/xsessions
made a copy of custom.desktop in /etc/X11/dm/Sessions to kde.desktop and changed the content to
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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
# The names/descriptions should really be better
Name=KDE 3.2.2
Comment=This starts a KDE session
Exec=startkde
Icon=
Type=Application
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Now i have my KDE back and all the skriptstuff stored in /etc where it belongs
Alex |
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Don't forget to set the right permissions
0755 for .dektop-files otherwise it won't work. |
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