Gnome Session Manager? [Login Menu Options]
I've installed FC9 with gnome and have downloaded kde. Is there a gui [session manager/editor] within gnome to switch to kde?
A search revealed this is a common question, but other posts seem to focus on other distros. I realize that I should've grabbed the kde version of FC9, but I thought I'd try gnome and figured it would have some level of configuration utility. Perhaps not... |
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From gdm (which is the display manager shipped with gnome) you should be able to choose whatever desktop or wm you have installed from a menu. That shouldn't be a problem. How to configure what display manager to use depends on the distro, I have no idea how to switch from gdm to kdm on fedora. However, there's no downside on continuing to use gdm to login into kde. |
I thought that too. KDE login screen has a pull-down where the user can choose a variety of desktops. The FC9-gnome login is a bare-bones screen; you can only choose the user.
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Maybe it's xdm?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Screenshot.png It's the stock display manager that comes preinstalled with the X server. You can take a look at the xdm man page and see what the configuration files for it are. I think it was something like /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config, but I really haven't used a graphical login manager for ages, so I don't remember that very well. |
Actually it's a Fedora login, which maybe a frontend for xdm[?]
Just curious, what do you use..? Is yours set to boot right into the desktop? Thanks 4 the input... |
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Just curious, what do you use..? Is yours set to boot right into the desktop? Quote:
Once upon a time I used to use kdm, but I grew bored of its many problems. I migrated to gdm, but at a given point, it started depending on the whole gnome desktop, due to integration with nautilus or whatever. I just can't understand why a login manager should be depending on a file explorer and, in turn, on a whole desktop. There are many others, like entrance from the e17 project, slim (a minimalist but still good-looking login manager), or qingy (which works on framebuffer, outside X, a very interesting project indeed). However, I find no use for a graphical login manager nowadays that I have just become accustomed to the text login. |
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