Re: Choose a Session

From: Enrique Perez-Terron (enrio_at_online.no)
Date: 10/01/05

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    Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 11:44:41 +0200
    
    

    On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 07:30:46 +0200, Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com> wrote:

    > 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
    [...]
    >> 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.

    I only have one session, "Default" in the
    "Desktop/Preferences/More Prefernces/Sessions" thingie, yet in the
    gdm login screen I do get

       1. Default System Session
       2. Gnome
       3. Failsafe Terminal

    -Enrique


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