Re: [toolbox-l] KDE /. linux affinity

[Paul C. <pa...@us...>]

If you are just looking for a way to use the CDE login panel with, well,
GNOME is what I've used so far, you can do the following:

1.  Add this to your $HOME/.dtprofile:
---- 8< ---- cut here ---- 8< ----
# If  you want to use $HOME/.xsession instead of just going into CDE,
uncomment...
if [ -x /usr/bin/gnome-session ]; then
     SESSIONTYPE=xdm
fi
---- 8< ---- end cut ---- 8< ----

2.  Then change your $HOME/.xsession as usual to run gnome-session.  (If
you don't have one, you can steal the default one from
/usr/lpp/X11/defaults/xinitrc.  Copy that file to $HOME/.xsession, and make
sure it is executable.)  Before the failsafe "exec mwm" at the end of the
file, insert the following:
---- 8< ---- cut here ---- 8< ----
if [ -x /usr/bin/gnome-session ]; then
     exec /usr/bin/gnome-session
fi

That's it!

This doesn't give you the easy ability to select which DE you want (you
would have to edit the .dtprofile and maybe the .xsession files), but it
does allow you the ability to use the CDE login panel, when the "Command
Line Login" feature, which many folks find very useful.

I haven't played enough with KDE to know how to do the same thing there,
but I suspect it is very similar, perhaps replace "gnome-session" with the
equivalent for KDE, above.  If someone figures it out, please post it here!

Paul Clarke


> I asked the CDE development team about this.  There is apparently no
> supported user-friendly way of adding sessions to dtlogin (yet).
>
> Marc

Forwarded message:
> We're going to publish KDE 2.1 soon, but we're going to do it at the
> same time that we align ourselves with future changes to libtool, which
> will allow our offerings to become compatible with the freeware offerings
> from Bull.  Unfortunately, there are some very low-level libraries which
> will change in a one-time-only binary incompatible fashion which will be
> painful for many of us.  I'm going to see what I can do to reduce the
> amount of trouble that it causes everyone.
>
> Marc
>
> >
> > On 07.03.01, Marc Stephenson wrote:
> > >=20
> > > I don't know much about CDE customization, though I'd start by
looking
> > > in the documentation for "sessions."  Maybe somebody else on the
> > > mailing list will chime in with a better answer.
> > >=20
> > We start with kdm as login manager, which per default in it's
> > session also shows 'CDE' besides KDE. So the users which still=20
> > want the CDE desktop can do this without problems.
> >  There is still one point why I would want to use dtlogin, and
> > that's the one with doing a 'command line login', login in
> > to the console, exit, and dtlogin automatically resumes the
> > X login window.=20
> > This is not possible with KDM and as the RS6k's don't allow
> > multiple consoles as a Linux box this is really annoying.
> > Reza, any news with KDE 2.1? Anything changed in this repect?
> >
> > Regards, Ralf
> > --=20
> >         Ralf Utermann