session chooser

[astrocoder]

i have downloaded a window manager i get from www.gnu.org named "blackbox".

i have compile and installed them on my redhat linux v8.

i was expecting that these window manager will appear in the linux's login screen (in "session" chooser), but they dont. the are only :

o last
o failsafe
x GNOME
o KDE
o Default

how to make "blackbox" window manager (instead "GNOME" window manager) appear in the session chooser on my login screen ? sorry of my english!

[wh|tewolf]

Originally posted by astrocoder
i have downloaded a window manager i get from www.gnu.org named "blackbox".

i have compile and installed them on my redhat linux v8.

i was expecting that these window manager will appear in the linux's login screen (in "session" chooser), but they dont. the are only :

o last
o failsafe
x GNOME
o KDE
o Default

how to make "blackbox" window manager (instead "GNOME" window manager) appear in the session chooser on my login screen ? sorry of my english!

You just need to configure the login manager. In KDE I know that that is found under the KDE section of Configuration.

[u3mike]

The last I heard redhat used GDM rather then KDM. If this is the case it should be as simple as adding a blackbox file to /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions

Just create a file named BlackBox, it should look something like this

#!/bin/sh
/path/to/blackbox/binary

and thats it, then run "chmod 755" on the file. Now restart gdm (or your whole system) and next time you turn it on the option to start blackbox should be there.