Bug 1187699

Summary:	/etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ignores /etc/sysconfig/desktop
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Simon Gao <gao>
Component:	xorg-x11-xinit	Assignee:	Hans de Goede <hdegoede>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version:	7.0
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Description Simon Gao 2015-01-30 17:18:52 UTC

Description of problem:

When both GNOME Desktop and KDE Plasma Workspaces are installed, the default desktop manager is set in /etc/sysconfig/desktop as:

DESKTOP="KDE"

However, upon login, GNOME Classic desktop starts instead of KDE.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Kernel 3.10.0-123.13.2.el7.x86_64
OS version: 7.0.1406
xorg-x11-xinit-1.3.2-13.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install both GNOME Desktop and KDE Plasma Workspaces
2. Set DESKTOP="KDE" in /etc/sysconfig/desktop
3. Login as a user

Actual results:

GNOME Classic started

Expected results:

KDE Plasma Workspaces starts

Additional info:

Comment 2 Hans de Goede 2015-02-03 09:36:40 UTC

Hello,

Thanks for the bug report. If I'm not mistaken then when you boot the machine you get a graphical login screen managed by gdm, correct?

You should have a pull-down menu when you type your username / password to select which desktop environment you want. If you change this to KDE gdm should remember this for future logins.

Note that the Xclients script is not involved in which desktop-enviroment gets started by default by gdm, as gdm does not use the Xclients script. There already is a bug for gdm not honoring /etc/sysconfig/desktop: "DESKTOP="KDE". see bug 1141676.

A workaround to get all your users to get the KDE desktop by default without needing them to select it explicitly the first time they log in is documented in this knowledge base article: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1125833

Please let me know if you are indeed using gdm, then I will close this bug as a duplicate of bug 1141676.

Note bug 1141676 atm is marked as private so you cannot view it, I've asked for the private marking to be removed.

Regards,

Hans

Comment 3 Hans de Goede 2015-02-03 09:51:38 UTC

Bug 1141676 is now public.

Comment 4 Simon Gao 2015-02-03 21:36:01 UTC

The workaround suggested by https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1125833 does not work. 

For system wide default setting, after removing gnome-session-xsession gnome-classic-session, can't log into Gnome classic mode.  

Still need a real solution. Default to KDE, but user can select GNOME.

Comment 5 Hans de Goede 2015-02-03 21:46:50 UTC

(In reply to Simon Gao from comment #4)
> The workaround suggested by https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1125833 does
> not work. 

I'm sorry to hear that the workaround does not work for you, please discuss this further in bug 1141676 .

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1141676 ***