From Bugzilla Helper: 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:
If you want to change your default desktop: Try preferences->desktop-switcher Shouldn't b 2 hard 4 Mr. average user.
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.
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.