Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/05/2013 07:49 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 17:17 +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
>> On 05/02/13 16:58, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
>>
>>> What's worse is that it's harder than it used to be to change the
>>> desktop---desktop style is no longer a login-time selection. In fact, I
>>> am not sure what is the recommended method nowadays--- groupinstall KDE
>>> + groupremove Gnome? but this can't be right for XFCE which I think
>>> shares stuff with Gnome..
>>
>> If you want to change what display manager is used then just change what
>> /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service points to.
>>
>> What desktop a display manager starts will be a display manager specific
>> configuration option.
>
> ...but as Rahul said, they all allow you to log in to any desktop. There
> seems to be a meme in this thread that GDM does not, but that's not
> correct, it does. The choice is not visible unless you actually have
> multiple desktops installed, but when you do, it gives you the option.

I know this applies, but installing gnome-shell pulls in gdm.

I.e. removing gdm without removing gnone-shell is not possible.

Ralf