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I've been experimenting with various window managers in Salix and I wanted to try Icewm. I compiled and installed it, but it didn't appear in the gdm options. The information I found relating to Ice on Slackware was all old and referred to things that no longer exist. None of the stuff in /etc/gdm seemed useful, even when I could understand what it did. Eventually I found the files in /etc/X11/xinit/ and created an xinitrc.icewm based on the xinitrc.fluxbox file, but that doesn't help. What am I doing wrong (apart from getting out of my depth)?

I'm guessing it's missing a .desktop file. These instructions are for fluxbox, but you can adapt them to icewm: http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/H ... e_gdm_menu

Of course! Thanks for the solution.

In the interval between testing new Linux releases, I've been using the guest partition on my desktop to try various window managers with Salix (I wouldn't experiment on the working Salix on my laptop). After Pekwm, Fluxbox, and WindowMaker, I think I was suffering information overload: I searched for information on Icewm when I should have looked for GDM.