F20 - Can't Select Desktop Environment at Login

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Sun Feb 9 23:26:08 UTC 2014


Brian Hanks wrote:

> I've had quite a challenge getting Fedora 20 to work on any of my
> machines, but I have finally managed to work through the issues and I
> have it running on two of them.  The problem I'm having now is that I am
> not able to select the Desktop Environment at Login.  In the past, I
> have always installed a particular environment, usually Gnome or Xfce,
> then added others via yum after the initial install was complete.  This
> act of adding the second Desktop environment automatically caused a
> tweak to Login Badge where I was able to select the desired desktop as
> part of the login.
> 
> This did not happen this time.  After extensive Google searching, I've
> been unable to determine how to correct this, so I'm hoping someone can
> point me in the correct direction.

You can still choose what session, but only *after* selecting the username 
(if using gdm, at least).

-- Rex



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