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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