F7 aarrghh : how get gnome back?

Beartooth Beartooth at swva.net
Sun Jul 13 13:41:45 UTC 2008


On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:01:53 -0400, Bob Goodwin USA wrote:

> Beartooth wrote:
>> 	I have an oldish (four or five year) machine, which I thought had
>> major mechanical failure -- it would boot from any live CD, but not
>> from the hard drive. Then a young friend who speaks hardware came and
>> ran tests on it. He concluded that it just wasn't up to F9.
>>
>> 	So I DBANned it, and installed F7 from a live CD I still had.
>>
>> 	I've been tweaking the install with pirut -- and frequent reboots
>> to be sure I hadn't broken anything. On the last one, logging in as
>> user, I decided to make sure it not only brought up Gnome, but had
>> Gnome as the default session.
>>
>> 	I got a little hasty and careless, hitting enter to soon -- and
>> *very* inadvertently made the default session KDE, which I happen to be
>> intensely allergic to.
>>
>> 	I can't remember the exact name of the app that lets you change
>> -- and KDE is acting as if Gnome either didn't exist, or were taboo.
>>
>> 	What do I do to get Gnome back onto the login session menu??
>>
>>
> switchdesk?  Get it from yum.

	Bless you, SIR! I made sure all machines have it. One had it 
already; but I can't find a launcher for it. Is there one?

	Knowing that I have trouble recalling the name, and therefore 
will also with the command, I meant to put a launcher on the panel of 
each machine. I guess I'll have to make one -- for the first time ... -- 
unless I'm missing something. 
-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
nine (count 'em -- nine) different browsers
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.




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