Most likely it installed as /usr/bin/wmaker if installed from a non-suse RPM or as /usr/local/bin/wmaker if you built it from sources. The simplest thing is to either enter "wmaker" in /etc/opt/kde2/share/config/kdm/kdmrc under SessionTypes or - if you have a windowmaker entry in that file - to do ln -s $(which wmaker) /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker. fredagen den 5 april 2002 18.47 skrev b stephen harding:

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On Friday 05 April 2002 05:42, Joshua Lee wrote:

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I've installed WindowMaker 0.8 and it didn't install to the same location as to where SuSE installed the 0.65 version. Anyway, now I would like to have the new WindowMaker to be one options on the KDM login manager. Where does the the kdm .conf file live or how do I change this?

KDE Control Center / System / Login Manager.

I've never tried upgrading WindowMaker however, but this is the easiest way to change KDM settings.

That nice, but WindowMaker 0.8 does not seem to be in a recgonized path. It installed in a different place the where SuSE put the .65 version. How do I get KDM to see the new location?

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Ooops! Typing error! Should be ln -s $(which wmaker) /usr/X11R6/bin/windowmaker More about that later. The fact that your binary is /usr/local/bin/wmaker doesn't matter att all as long as /usr/local/bin is in your path, which it should be on a system that has not been extremely tampered. So if yoy just entered "wmaker" (without quotation marks) in /etc/opt/kde2/share/config/kdm/kdmrc or added wmaker as a session in KDE control center you should be able to use WindowMaker just by wmaker (or scrolling down to) in KDM. If the entry in /etc/opt/kde2/share/config/kdm/kdmrc isnt "wmaker" but "WindowMaker" or "windowmaker" this will not work since there most likely isn't a binary named "WindowMaker" in your path - there's no "WindowMaker" or "wmaker" to run. Then you have to create one! That's where "ln -s $(which wmaker) /usr/X11R6/bin/windowmaker" comes in. The command creates a symbolic link from "wherever wmaker is in your path" to /usr/X11R6/bin/windowmaker . When you enter "windowmaker" as the windowmanager of your choice in KDM there actually is an executable "windowmaker" to run. So, bearing in mind that UNIX is case-sensitive you have at least four courses of action: 1. If your entry is "WindowMaker" . ln -s /usr/local/bin/wmaker /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker 2. If your entry is "windowmaker" . ln -s /usr/local/bin/wmaker /usr/X11R6/bin/windowmaker 3. If you don't want to create symbolic links. As root: Open up /etc/opt/kde2/share/config/kdm/kdmrc in your favourite editor. Enter "wmaker" somewhere on the line (~ line 59) that begins with SessionTypes. Run "rcxdm restart" in a terminal. 4. If you don't want to create symbolic links and don't want to hand-edit files. Enter a session "wmaker" in KDE controll center, system, login manager, sessions (or whaterver it's called in English). Log out. From KDM, restart the X-server. Best regards Anders fredagen den 5 april 2002 23.27 skrev b stephen harding:

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So in KDM I entered WindowMaker. Now do I typ this exactly or does something go int he ()'s? Sorry if this sound stupid, just I'm not to great at this stuff. ln -s $(which wmaker) /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker

By the way my wmaker binary is located at /usr/local/bin/wmaker does this make any difference?

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On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:47:00 -0500 b stephen harding wrote:

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KDE Control Center / System / Login Manager.

That nice, but WindowMaker 0.8 does not seem to be in a recgonized path. It installed in a different place the where SuSE put the .65 version. How do I get KDM to see the new location?

Find out where it is and link it to the windowmaker binary in the /usr/X11R6/bin directory using ln -s. Then you won't even need to make a new entry in the login manager.