> On Nov 18, 2017, at 9:11 PM, Ben <bmatteso@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Folks who are familiar with this feature may take it for granted, but if you haven't seen how to do it, you won't realize you can even select a different session at the login screen.  But at the normal login screen, after typing in your login name, there's a small widget that you can click on next to the "Sign in" button to pull up a list of possible window sessions.  One of them is "Gnome on Xorg, eg:
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> https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/files/2016/03/login.png
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> Silvia is recommending you login and select the "Gnome on Xorg" session and that will use the Gnome on top of X11.  If you already knew this, just ignore this ....  :-)

Thank you.  That is helpful.

Unfortunately, it is helpful in establishing that I don’t see this at all.

This machine has a single user account and that account does not use a password.  In this scenario, there is no “Sign In” button.

Is the widget you’re referring to positioned elsewhere in this use case?