Desktop switching tool problem

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Wed May 5 20:41:51 UTC 2004


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

Cheers,
Mark.





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