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Re: [trinity-devel] Ensuring tde.desktop login manager session file is installed for other login managers

From: "Darrell Anderson" <darrella@...>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:57:04 -0600
>It is distribution-dependant.
>Generally, GDM and KDM4 both have a search path that includes 
>/usr/share/xsessions/ , so I put the files there.
>But sometimes (on Mandriva-derived distribution), there are 
>specific tools and locations that must be used ...

Thank you.

Would you please itemize those locations?

From what I have read, /usr/share/xsessions is more or less a 
default location.

Thus far I know of the following:

/etc/X11/sessions
/etc/kde/kdm/sessions
/usr/share/xsessions
/usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions
/usr/share/config/kdm/sessions
/usr/share/config/kdm/Xsession
/var/lib/menu-xdg/xsessions

I am curious about other login managers, such as SLiM and LightDM.

I am gathering information for bug report 1934.

Darrell