March 2005
Beginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
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Chapter 3, Login Managers
#20 Scrap X11 for Fancy Login Consoles
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You can switch between sessions by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-Alt-F2.
Virtual consoles are still available on Ctrl-Alt-F3 through F6.
When Qingy Doesn’t Offer Session Choices
One common occurrence is that Qingy doesn’t display any window manag-
ers or desktop environments in its session field. By default, Qingy looks in
the /etc/X11/Sessions directory for a list of files, each representing a window
manager or desktop available on your system. The name of the file appears
in the Qingy sessions list. These session files contain a single line, a full path
to the executable to the window manager or desktop. For example, the file
named /etc/X11/Sessions/KDE might contain the line /usr/bin/startkde, and
the file /etc/X11/Sessions/WindowMaker should contain a single line such as
/usr/bin/wmaker.
If you don’t see any window managers available from the Qingy login
screen, you have one of two problems. Your session files are stored some-
where other than /etc/X11/Sessions or your system simply doesn’t work that
way—there is no single directory of session files.
If your system stores the session files somewhere other than /etc/X11/
Sessions, edit the Qingy configuration file /usr/local/etc/qingy/settings so that
it points to the directory where your system keeps its session files. Locate
the following line:
x_sessions = "/etc/X11/Sessions/" ...
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