Problems with kdm sessions on suse10.0 different from "kde"

Hello, I am running suse10.0 on my system and have some trouble starting sessions different from "kde", i.e. the only session type I can start is kde. In the "session type" menu of kdm I can see all kinds of sessions like "kde", "fvwm" or "WindowMaker". "kde" works but no matter what other session type I select kde is always started. I did not see anything in /var/log/messages or /var/log/warn or /var/log/kdm. Can anyone give me a hint where kdm searches for the list of sessions and where I might look for errors? I looked into /usr/share/xsessions for the sessions offered but even if I delete all ".desktop" files in this directory, restart kdm, the list of sessions for kdm is unchanged. Thanks Rainer -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Krienke, Universitaet Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, Raum A022 Universitaetsstrasse 1, 56070 Koblenz, Tel: +49 261287 -1312, Fax: -1001312 Mail: krienke@uni-koblenz.de, Web: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke Get my public PGP key: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

On Donnerstag 03 November 2005 14:24, Rainer Krienke wrote:
Hello,
I am running suse10.0 on my system and have some trouble starting sessions different from "kde", i.e. the only session type I can start is kde. In the "session type" menu of kdm I can see all kinds of sessions like "kde", "fvwm" or "WindowMaker". "kde" works but no matter what other session type I select kde is always started.
I found the problem. It was due to a modification I made in /etc/profile. This lead to the effect, that in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/sys.xsession all the files in /etc/profile.d/ were executed and in these files the variable WINDOWMANAGER was set to the default which is kde. Thanks Rainer -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Krienke, Universitaet Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, Raum A022 Universitaetsstrasse 1, 56070 Koblenz, Tel: +49 261287 -1312, Fax: -1001312 Mail: krienke@uni-koblenz.de, Web: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke Get my public PGP key: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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