How to add sessions to KDM and GDM
Lets say you installed a new window manager, Musca for instance. And upon installation, no GDM or KDM session was created so you cannot log into it. Solving this is rather simple.
cd over to /usr/share/xsessions/
if you ls the directory you’ll see several *.desktop files. Fluxbox’s looks like this:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Fluxbox
Comment=Highly configurable and low resource X11 Window manager
Exec=/usr/bin/startfluxbox
Terminal=False
TryExec=/usr/bin/startfluxbox
Type=Application[Window Manager]
SessionManaged=true
All you really need to do is the following:
cp /usr/share/xsessions/fluxbox.desktop /usr/share/xsessions/musca.desktop
then modify musca.desktop in a text editor so it looks like the following:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Musca
Comment= Kickass tiling window manager
Exec=/usr/bin/musca
Terminal=False
TryExec=/usr/bin/musca
Type=Application
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