selecting default session with gdm
Aleksandar Milivojevic
amilivojevic at pbl.ca
Mon Jan 3 16:52:56 UTC 2005
Andrew Choens wrote:
>>vi /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>
> That will definitely work, but I prefer to use the simplest method
> possible which is:
>
> 1) Start gnome-terminal and type....
> 2) switchdesk xfce
>
> You'll get some feedback from the system and it will tell you that
> your default desktop has been changed to XFCE. This will ONLY change
> it for the user you are running it as. So, on my system, a user
> (let's say Tom) has done this. Tom will load XFCE when he logs in
> while everyone else continues to use GNOME. In contrast, changing the
> file in /etc will change the default login for everyone on your
> system.
>
> I don't know which you want to do.
I wanted to change it for all users (currently only two, me and my wife,
but I hope that our 6-months old son will learn not to type rm -rf / as
root soon enough, and than he'll get an account too ;-) ).
Anyhow, I attempted to change /etc/sysconfig/desktop, but I always got
GNOME as default session. Maybe I did something stupid like forgetting
to restart GDM or something. I'll play with it a bit more when I get home.
BTW, are values in /etc/sysconfig/desktop case sensitive? Should I have
inthere something like "XFCE", or "xfce", or "XFCE4"?
> Also, if you don't know vi, any editor will work.
(x)emacs would probably be an overkill for editing one-line file, so I
guess I'll stick with vi for this job ;-)
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