Desktop switching tool problem

Gerry Tool gstool at earthlink.net
Thu May 6 02:16:36 UTC 2004


Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 22:15, Gerry Tool wrote:
> 
>>Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>> 
>>
>>>	Advance forewarning of impending catastrophe. We'll probably be
>>>removing switchdesk in FC3:
>>>
>>>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2004-May/msg00010.html
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Mark.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Reading the referenced message, it appears that even though switchdesk 
>>is removed, one will still be able to select which gui to use at login. 
>>  Is this understanding correct?
> 
> 
> 	Yeah, basically GDM has code to allow you do it, but it disables that
> code if it sees that switchdesk is installed. You can switch that
> behaviour on even if switchdesk is installed by doing
> 
> ShowLastSession=true
> 
> 	in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
> 

I made that change on my system and like the result much better than 
using switchdesk, anyway.  That's the way RHL used to work and I 
preferred it that way.

Thanks.

Gerry Tool





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