Nscde not loading

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Hi

I just installed “nscde” and dnf has created for me nscde entry:

liviu@bobdenaut:~$ ls -a -l -Z /usr/share/xsessions/
total 36
drwxr-xr-x.   2 root root system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0   4 Mar 21 19:41 .
drwxr-xr-x. 309 root root system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0 312 Mar 21 20:15 ..
-rw-r--r--.   1 root root system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0 168 Sep  7  2024 fvwm.desktop
-rw-r--r--.   1 root root system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0 176 Jul 17  2024 nscde.desktop

but gdm doesn’t want to list it, I only have “GNOME” and “GNOME CLASSIC”.

Any idea how do I fix it?
Thanks

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OK, I also copied the desktop files also to wayland:

sudo cp /usr/share/xsessions/*.desktop /usr/share/wayland-sessions

and now I get those entries but nscde doesn’t start after I enter my username and the password…

3

Answering to myself, maybe it’s because I only have installed wayland but nscde needs Xorg?

4

It certainly does require xorg.

5

Yeah, I just installed xorg and disabled wayland.
On login screen now I only have nscde and fvwm but still doesnt logins my user…
Do I need any specific .x files on my home dir?

I created this one:


liviu@bobdenaut:~$ cat .xsession
#!/bin/bash

exec /usr/bin/nscde
6

ok, I disabled gdm si ran startx nscde and works

7

In the past I have had problems getting X11 sessions to appear or start in GDM, if you want to avoid using startx every time you could try using a different display manager like SDDM or lightdm instead:

sudo dnf install sddm
systemctl disable gdm
systemctl enable sddm

and reboot.

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Thanks