installing fvwm, cannot get the choice in login screen

From: H. S. (g_reate_xcalibur_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/06/03 

Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 19:11:56 -0500

Hi,

A few months ago I had successfully installed Fvwm in Redhat 8.0. Now I
am trying to install it on Fedora. I repeated the steps as I had done
before but I can't get Fvwm to work in Fodora. Has something changed?

Here is what I did:
1) Compiled and installed fvwm in /usr/local

2)created /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/fvwm, with the following contents

#!/bin/bash
                    #added by HS,05Dec2003, while added fvwm choice to
the login screen
exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession fvwm

3) changed this file's pemission to:
> ls -l /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/fvwm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 113 Dec 5 18:06 /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/fvwm

4) Modified /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.fvwm :
18:10:36:/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions# cat /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.fvwm
#!/bin/bash
# (c) 2001 Red Hat, Inc.

#exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2
exec /usr/local/bin/fvwm > ~/.fvwm-errors 2>&1

5)inserted the folling lines in teh case statement in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions
fvwm)
exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSHAGENT /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.fvwm"
  ;;

So given these setting, I get cannot get an "fvwm" option in the Session
menu of the Fedora login screen. I do have an FVWM option in the
DesktopSwitching tool though which seems to broken(it might have been
existing from before! Does anybody else who hasn't installed fvwm have
this option in that tool?). If I choose the FVWM option and relogin, the
session crashes.

Suggestion?
->HS 

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