Choose a Session

hawat.thufir_at_gmail.com
Date: 09/30/05 

Date: 30 Sep 2005 12:39:18 -0700

On a Fedora Core 3 system, from runlevel 5 there's a graphical login
screen. Clicking on "session" brings up a window with two choices:

1. Default System Session
2. failsafe_Terminal

Which is all well and good, except that until the other day there was
also Gnome. I've poked around, looking at /etc/X11/init, but it's a
bit over my head.

>>From the Default System Session I'm able to start nautilus, but it's
awkward. I don't have the graphical switchdesk installed.

How do I get Gnome added to the list of session options, please?

Thanks,

Thufir

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