Am Donnerstag, 06.03.03 um 23:25 Uhr schrieb Hannes Hirzel:
> Great IDE - Squeak as a KDE "replacement"!
> I turn on a computer, get a login screen, choose Squeak as
> the session type and voila, I have Squeak taking over ....
>
> From: Cees de Groot <cg at cdegroot.com>
>> He probably means something like entering 'squeak -fullscreen' as the
>> window manager in the X startup scripts (or, cleanly, defining it as a
>> possible xdm session). Works like a charm, and one could imagine
>> building a little distribution around it.
>
> Could somebody provide more details / pointers how to set up an xdm
> session. Which tool besides messing around with configuration
> files do I use under RedHat 8.0 (prof. edition) or SUSE 8.1 to set this
> up?
> Of course snippets of example configuration files would also
> be welcome. I do not mind using config files if I just can work with
> a pattern matching / adaptation approach.

I think for GDM (default on RedHat) you only need one file:

/etc/gdm/Sessions/Squeak
	#! /bin/sh
	exec squeak -fullscreen $HOME/path/to/squeak.image
	# fail safe (only reached if executing the above fails):
	exec xterm

Should be as easy for other display managers.

-- Bert