Hi, kdm doesn't display all my desktops (Cinnamon, Mate, Openbox/KDE, Awesome), is there any solution for that?

1) which distro?
2) did it ever show all?
3) the 4 you listed are all not shown?
4) the 4 you listed are all installed? and they have run?
5) what is in folder /usr/share/xsessions?

google01103 wrote:1) which distro?
2) did it ever show all?
3) the 4 you listed are all not shown?
4) the 4 you listed are all installed? and they have run?
5) what is in folder /usr/share/xsessions?

1)Manjaro
2)No, but other DMs do.
3) Yes
4) Yes
5)All the DE i've installed

What options does KDM offer? It should follow the usual specification for XSession options as far as I am aware.

bcooksley wrote:What options does KDM offer? It should follow the usual specification for XSession options as far as I am aware.

it shows:
-Enlightment
-KDE
-KDE(fallbackmode)
-Openbox
-TWM
-Metacity
-Razor QT
-Xfce

silly question but is there a limit (maybe a bug) on how many desktops Kdm can display? could that limit be 8?

if you remove one that shows does one of the others now display?

Maybe, but I'd expect "Awesome" to be first in the list
Pot. broken symlinks? Is eg. the awesome service a valid service file? Can you post its contents?

google01103 wrote:silly question but is there a limit (maybe a bug) on how many desktops Kdm can display? could that limit be 8?

if you remove one that shows does one of the others now display?

No, i removed a desktop and it doesn't work, thanks anyway

luebking wrote:Maybe, but I'd expect "Awesome" to be first in the list
Pot. broken symlinks? Is eg. the awesome service a valid service file? Can you post its contents?

Others DM show awesome, i don't think that's the problem

Well, since the list seems pretty random and it's not about the count, it will be something about those files.
Permissions or content.
The desktop service format knows a "Hidden" key.

luebking wrote:Well, since the list seems pretty random and it's not about the count, it will be something about those files.
Permissions or content.
The desktop service format knows a "Hidden" key.

It may be related with permissions, my log in settings can't access to my home folder, i have to copy mi backgrounds to the root folder, it says "poor accesibility in the general tab"

kdm runs as root, what's the "stat" on eg. the awesome service?
(And I suggest to post it nevertheless - could be an invalid statement that kdm is more picky about than other DMs)

luebking wrote:kdm runs as root, what's the "stat" on eg. the awesome service?
(And I suggest to post it nevertheless - could be an invalid statement that kdm is more picky about than other DMs)

sorry for the noob question, but, where is that file?

/usr/share/xsessions/awesome.desktop

The valid type is "XSession", but KDM isn't too picky about that here.
I wonder about the non-absolute path, though. If KDM doesn't have the path to awesome in its PATH, that's not gonna work.

Try to replace
Exec=awesome
TryExec=awesome

with

Exec=/usr/bin/awesome
TryExec=/usr/bin/awesome

(given "/usr/bin/awesome" is the return of "which awesome", ie. the actual full path)