Tom Horsley wrote:
I decided to try the prescription from the thread on gdm chooser for turning off the user list:
GCONFSYS=$(gconftool-2 --get-default-source) gconftool-2 --config-source=$GCONFSYS --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list --type bool true
It did indeed work, no more stoopid user list, but as a side effect it also utterly ignored my ~/.dmrc file.
It always defaults to a GNOME session login, I have to manually pick a different session kind on each login - the choice does not stick.
You can set it in /etc/sysconfig/desktop for a system wide default and GDM will honor it. The Fedora Xfce live cd for example, does the following in the kickstart file:
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cat > /etc/sysconfig/desktop <<EOF PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startxfce4 EOF
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You can use switchdesk for GNOME or KDE.
Rahul