Hi All, I just set up a computer with Scientific Linux 6.1, using the default "Workstation". Then I installed Xfce. Question, how do I change my gdm default from gnome to Xfce? /etc/gdm/custom.conf [daemon] DefaultSession=xfce.desktop Does not work. What am I doing wrong?

On 12/13/2011 09:09 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:17:09 -0800 > Todd And Margo Chester<toddandmargo(a)gmail.com>  wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I just set up a computer with Scientific Linux 6.1, using >> the default "Workstation".  Then I installed Xfce.

>> Question, how do I change my gdm default from gnome to Xfce? >> >>      /etc/gdm/custom.conf >>      [daemon] >>      DefaultSession=xfce.desktop >> >> Does not work.  What am I doing wrong? > > > Not sure. Might need to be just 'xfce' ? "Supposedly" it has to be the same thing that appears in /usr/share/xsessions > > Alternately, you do know that once you choose the xfce session it > should remember and always give you that one by default. ;) > > kevin The buzzard goes right back to gnome. Is it just me or did gdm get worse with recent releases? -T _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list xfce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce

On 12/13/2011 10:38 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 13 December 2011 11:34, Todd And Margo Chester > <toddandmargo(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> On 12/13/2011 09:09 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:17:09 -0800 >>> Todd And Margo Chester&lt;toddandmargo(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> I just set up a computer with Scientific Linux 6.1, using >>>> the default "Workstation". Then I installed Xfce. > > Check to see if the user has a .dmrc file > [Desktop] > Session=xfce > Language=en_US.utf8 > Layout=us > > will get you xfce > > gnome will get you gnome over the default. As far as I can tell, my .dmrc is being ignored. I do believe https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617465 is the same issue

On 15/12/11 19:11, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: >> >> As far as I can tell, my .dmrc is being ignored. I do believe >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617465 >> is the same issue > > I opened this following bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=768108 As RHEL only uses Gnome iirc. Don't expect too much from opening the bug report. They may even close it, as not a bug,

As RHEL only uses Gnome iirc.

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Todd And Margo Chester <toddandmargo(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi All, > > I just set up a computer with Scientific Linux 6.1, using > the default "Workstation". Then I installed Xfce. > > Question, how do I change my gdm default from gnome to Xfce? > > /etc/gdm/custom.conf > [daemon] > DefaultSession=xfce.desktop > > Does not work. What am I doing wrong? > > Many thanks, > -T > _______________________________________________ > xfce mailing list > xfce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce yum install switchdesktop then run it in a terminal as<user> there is also a GUI yum install switchdesktop-gui again run it as<user>

On 12/17/2011 3:28 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: > On 12/17/2011 06:49 AM, David Boles wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Todd And Margo Chester >> <toddandmargo(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I just set up a computer with Scientific Linux 6.1, using >>> the default "Workstation". Then I installed Xfce. >>> >>> Question, how do I change my gdm default from gnome to Xfce? >>> >>> /etc/gdm/custom.conf >>> [daemon] >>> DefaultSession=xfce.desktop >>> >>> Does not work. What am I doing wrong? >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> -T >>> _______________________________________________ >>> xfce mailing list >>> xfce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce >> >> >> yum install switchdesktop >> >> then run it in a terminal as<user> >> >> there is also a GUI yum install switchdesktop-gui >> >> again run it as<user> >> > > According to pbone.net there is only a switchdesk available > for FC15. YUM says nothing is available either (switchdesk, > switchdesktop, or switchdesktop-gui). > > I doubt it either as I believe it would give the same > result as this FC14 bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658247 > > Thank you for the help, What release of Fedora is Scientific Linux 6.1 based on?

When I next get to the server with this issue, I will change PREFERRED to "/usr/bin/startxfce4" and see what happens. I will get back.

Am Sonntag, den 18.12.2011, 11:10 -0800 schrieb Todd And Margo Chester: > When I next get to the server with this issue, I will > change PREFERRED to "/usr/bin/startxfce4" and see what > happens. I will get back. Right, that should do the trick. This is explained in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LXDE#Make_LXDE_the_default_Desktop and /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt. Unfortunately it only works with gdm 2.x, 3.0 ignores /etc/sysconfig/desktop completely. Regards, Christoph

> On 12/18/2011 07:53 AM, Lucas wrote: >> On 12/18/2011 05:29 PM, David wrote: >>> On 12/17/2011 3:28 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: >>>> On 12/17/2011 06:49 AM, David Boles wrote: >>>>> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Todd And Margo Chester >>>>> <toddandmargo(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >>>>>> Hi All, >>>>>> >>>>>> I just set up a computer with Scientific Linux 6.1, using >>>>>> the default "Workstation". Then I installed Xfce. >>>>>> >>>>>> Question, how do I change my gdm default from gnome to Xfce? >>>>>> >>>>>> /etc/gdm/custom.conf >>>>>> [daemon] >>>>>> DefaultSession=xfce.desktop >>>>>> >>>>>> Does not work. What am I doing wrong? >>>>>> >>>>>> Many thanks, >>>>>> -T >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> xfce mailing list >>>>>> xfce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >>>>>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> yum install switchdesktop >>>>> >>>>> then run it in a terminal as<user> >>>>> >>>>> there is also a GUI yum install switchdesktop-gui >>>>> >>>>> again run it as<user> >>>>> >>>> >>>> According to pbone.net there is only a switchdesk available >>>> for FC15. YUM says nothing is available either (switchdesk, >>>> switchdesktop, or switchdesktop-gui). >>>> >>>> I doubt it either as I believe it would give the same >>>> result as this FC14 bug: >>>> >>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658247 >>>> >>>> Thank you for the help, >>> >>> What release of Fedora is Scientific Linux 6.1 based on? >>> >>> >> >> I can suggest to look at /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients, but I am not sure that >> gdm reads this file. >> I use FXCE since 4.4.3, but never with gdm. > > Thank you! > > Now this piece of code look interesting (Xclients). For starters, > it explains what the "PREFERRED" variable in /etc/sysconfig/desktop > is doing. > > > /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients: > > GSESSION="$(which gnome-session 2>/dev/null)" > STARTKDE="$(which startkde 2>/dev/null)" > > # check to see if the user has a preferred desktop > PREFERRED= > if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then > . /etc/sysconfig/desktop > if [ "$DESKTOP" = "GNOME" ]; then > PREFERRED="$GSESSION" > elif [ "$DESKTOP" = "KDE" ]; then > PREFERRED="$STARTKDE" > fi > fi > > if [ -n "$PREFERRED" ]; then > exec "$PREFERRED" > fi > > > When I next get to the server with this issue, I will > change PREFERRED to "/usr/bin/startxfce4" and see what > happens. I will get back. > > -T Nope. Still did not work. I had to go back to my cheezy work around. :'( -T _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list xfce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce

> Why you can't just install lxdm. It is good enough. Anyway you do not > > use GDM. Maybe becasue he does not want 'It is good enough" but he wants Xfce?

On 12/21/2011 09:50 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: > On 12/21/2011 07:18 AM, David wrote: >>> Why you can't just install lxdm. It is good enough. Anyway you do not >>> > use GDM. >> >> Maybe becasue he does not want 'It is good enough" but he wants Xfce? > > I think he is only talking about the greater, not the desktop. > Yes, I was talking about: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=277640.

It is on Fedora 17. You need for Fedora 16.

Why you can't just install lxdm. It is good enough.

And also I don't understand why lightdm is not in Fedora repository.

On 12/17/2011 3:28 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: > On 12/17/2011 06:49 AM, David Boles wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Todd And Margo Chester >> <toddandmargo(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I just set up a computer with Scientific Linux 6.1, using >>> the default "Workstation". Then I installed Xfce. >>> >>> Question, how do I change my gdm default from gnome to Xfce? >>> >>> /etc/gdm/custom.conf >>> [daemon] >>> DefaultSession=xfce.desktop >>> >>> Does not work. What am I doing wrong? >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> -T >>> _______________________________________________ >>> xfce mailing list >>> xfce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce >> >> >> yum install switchdesktop >> >> then run it in a terminal as<user> >> >> there is also a GUI yum install switchdesktop-gui >> >> again run it as<user> >> > > According to pbone.net there is only a switchdesk available > for FC15. YUM says nothing is available either (switchdesk, > switchdesktop, or switchdesktop-gui). > > I doubt it either as I believe it would give the same > result as this FC14 bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658247 > > Thank you for the help, What release of Fedora is Scientific Linux 6.1 based on?

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Todd And Margo Chester <toddandmargo(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi All, > > I just set up a computer with Scientific Linux 6.1, using > the default "Workstation". Then I installed Xfce. > > Question, how do I change my gdm default from gnome to Xfce? > > /etc/gdm/custom.conf > [daemon] > DefaultSession=xfce.desktop > > Does not work. What am I doing wrong? > > Many thanks, > -T > _______________________________________________ > xfce mailing list > xfce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce yum install switchdesktop then run it in a terminal as<user> there is also a GUI yum install switchdesktop-gui again run it as<user>