Every so often I find myself cursing at how obtuse and arcane it is to add a new session to the kdm menu. Enlightenment comes to mind as the most common. I really don't care whether or not the blame can be handed off to Enlightenment or whichever is the problem of the moment since the bottom line is that it just shouldn't be so difficult to add a manger to the menu. It's a menu for crying out loud, a trivial little thing but one that has eaten up more hours than I care to think about just trying to find the definitive answer.

Much of the difficulty comes from forgetting how I did it the last time since it doesn't occur that often, plus it has changed some over the years. Don't get me wrong I love KDE and it is my DE of choice and kdm is what I always use, not xdm or gdm, but this is just frustrating for something that should be simple and consistent.

Using Goofle results in numerous conflicting results most of which fail. Please, someone explain the proper and preferred way to add a WM/DE session to the kdm menu so I can save it and never have to waste this time ever again.
Thank You.

KDM stores it's sessions by default in /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/

bcooksley wrote:KDM stores it's sessions by default in /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/

you mean /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/sessions/ ? at least in openSuse

OpenSUSE and other distributions modify KDE to move /usr/share/apps to /usr/share/kde4/apps I believe.

bcooksley wrote:KDM stores it's sessions by default in /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/

Thank You. That worked for me in Slackware. It seems an odd way to go about menu building, trying to cover all possible installs instead of simply letting admin/users add what they've installed, but it does work. Much appreciated since simply searching for "*.desktop" gets too many hits.