Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 09/13/2002 - 17:28. General Questions
I`ve been looking for this info for days now and haven`t found anything that really helps... A default RH72 installation uses GDM to authenticate users and start their preferred session. I`d be *EXTREMELY* interested in any URLs, pointers, or suggestions that would indicate how to integrate OpenMotif into this arrangement without completely ripping out Gnome/KDE.
I`m also concerned about the focus of this site... there appears to be lots of information about how to *compile* the libraries, but almost no information about how a sys-admin could set up a system to actually *use* it.
Maybe I`m missing something obvious, and if I am I`m certainly open to suggestions as long as they`re anatomically possible and don`t involve handbaskets or travelling to hot climates...
This was a pain I was in Mandrake 7.whatever and it was pretty hard to figure out.
I think you need to find something in
/etc/X11/gdm/sessions/ (something like that)
there are files in here like
--------------------------------
01Gnome 02Blackbox 03KDE ....etc.
Just "cp" yours to 09Motif(the number shouldnt matter.) and edit it to have mwm and Motif in the script instead of whatever is in it.
them I belive you need to go to the main xsession script in /etc/ or /etc/X11 and add a line like
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(Motif
exec mwm
##i use a script in X11R6/bin called "startmotif" that runs helper apps, you can also have a local .xsession for the helper apps)
;;
---------------
You put this line right around where it says (failsafe and copy the syntax. BE CAREFULL NOT TO GET INTO A NASTY GDM LOOP
Keep in mind I dont have my system in front of me and im trying to answer to the best of my memory but thats about it. "Motif" should show up in your gdm menu, and it should run mwm.
If interested email me tim_of_claymores@yahoo.com, and ill get some better directions, but id need to look at my system first.