Update GD

[autek]

I installed icewm, however it did not update GDM. So, how or where do I add icewm as a choice. GDM shows only Gnome as a choice. Thanks

Ed

[bhobjj]

With the change from XFree86 to Xorg, there are some new standards that have been adopted. There is a common directory for the login managers (xdm, gdm, kdm) for destop entries. Look in :
/usr/share/xsessions
Open one of the dot desktop files, make your changes and do a "save-as".

It is strange that it was not created when the package was installed . .

Here is (/usr/share/xsessions/IceWM.desktop) mine:


[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
# The names/descriptions should really be better
Name=IceWM
Comment=This is the window manager IceWM
Comment[de]=Dies ist der Fenstermanager IceWM
Exec=/usr/bin/icewm-session
Icon=icewm.xpm
Type=Application

[autek]

Well after spending more time than I cared to, I found it was an error on my part. I failed to install icewm itself, I had only installed icewm core and icewm-gnome-support. I do appreciate the answer as I never did find where the gdm settings were stored.

Now to figure out how to add the gnome menu into icewm.

Thanks

Ed