gnome-shell???

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon Feb 28 05:03:06 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 12:50 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:54:50 -0800,
>   Rob Healey <robhealey1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I must ask again, please, is fc15 updates-testing gnome*2.91.90* or rawhide/
> > fc16 stable enough with gnome-shell to update to either one???
> 
> Maybe. gdm just got a widget that allows picking a desktop. F15 RC2 was just
> built and is expected to pass validation for the alpha release. So things
> are in reasonable shape.

Alpha RC was built from the frozen dist-f15 tree, not from
updates-testing. After updating my desktop to updates-testing, both gdm
and GNOME are broken for me; gdm crashing in a loop, running 'startx'
from a vt just gives me a blank background. I'm posting this from Xfce.

> > I would also like to know at the Gnome login screen, where can I choose to
> > select a different windows manager, such as KDE LXDE, or icewm???  I know
> > that in the far upper right, I can select logout, restart, shut down...
> 
> I believe it is the lower left now. I think that option has been there about 
> a week.

Right, session selection went away for a bit and only came back
recently.
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