Bug 125071 - No good way to change the default session
Summary: No good way to change the default session
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: 2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-06-02 15:10 UTC by Shawn Smout
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-11-08 20:11:03 UTC
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Description Shawn Smout 2004-06-02 15:10:29 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510

Description of problem:
As far as I can tell, there is no good way in any of the graphical
tools to change the default session.  It seems the best place for this
would be in gdmconfig, so I have also submitted this bug directly with
Gnome.  However, there is the OS-specific /etc/sysconfig/desktop
(which is not sufficient, since the average user would not know it
exists), so the OS ought to have a user-friendly GUI way to change
that file, especially if Gnome doesn't add such an option soon.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.6.0.0-3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Try to figure out how to change your session (assuming you are an
average user who does not use the command line).
2.There isn't one.
3.
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 goahead 2004-06-03 01:31:40 UTC
If you want to change your default desktop:
Try preferences->desktop-switcher
Shouldn't b 2 hard 4 Mr. average user.

Comment 2 Shawn Smout 2004-06-11 17:24:40 UTC
I probably should have specified that I was using KDE, not Gnome; that
menu item is not there in KDE, although most configuration utilities
are present in both desktops.  So this is a bug at least for KDE
users, if not for Gnome users.

Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2004-11-08 20:11:03 UTC
For reference, the upstream report is here:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143586

Since the problem is currently being tracked upstream, let's follow
it's progress there.


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