Re: Choose a Session

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com)
Date: 10/01/05 

Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 01:30:46 -0400

On 30 Sep 2005 12:39:18 -0700, hawat.thufir@gmail.com
  <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
Start gnome-panel if it isn't already running, then look through the
menus for "Sessions". You can add a session called "Gnome", then log
out and log into that session. 

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