09 Dec 2021

Adding a new WM to startup with GDM

To add an item for the WM to the options shown on gdm startup:

Add its .desktop file to /usr/share/xsessions:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=qtile
Comment=Qtile
Exec=/home/me/.dotfiles/qtile/.config/qtile/startup.sh
Type=Application
X-LightDM-DesktopName=qtile
DesktopNames=qtile
Keywords=tiling;wm;windowmanager;window;manager;

sudo systemctl restart gdm.service¹

Before that I tried killing gdm3 and X but it didn’t work. ↩︎

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