On 4/15/25 11:23 AM, Max Pyziur wrote:
Greetings, So far, I've upgraded one of my laptops. I've been using XFCe and prefer to use it. On finishing the upgrade and getting the login screen, only Gnome and Gnome Classic are offered. Checking for installed rpms, xfce rpms have been upgraded. How can I continue using XFCe?
Thank you, Max Pyziur pyz@brama.com
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 02:23:41PM -0400, Max Pyziur wrote:
Greetings,
So far, I've upgraded one of my laptops. I've been using XFCe and prefer to use it.
On finishing the upgrade and getting the login screen, only Gnome and Gnome Classic are offered.
Checking for installed rpms, xfce rpms have been upgraded. How can I continue using XFCe?
See:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/gnome-login-screen-no-longer-supports...
basically you are using gdm (The gnome display manager) and X11 support was disabled there, so it won't see Xfce sessions.
They are going to re-enable it for f42, see this test update: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-36e1759b84 which you could just test or wait for...
Or you could switch to lightdm:
dnf install lightdm-gtk sudo systemctl enable lightdm --force and reboot.
kevin
On 4/15/25 1:27 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 02:23:41PM -0400, Max Pyziur wrote:
Greetings,
So far, I've upgraded one of my laptops. I've been using XFCe and prefer to use it.
On finishing the upgrade and getting the login screen, only Gnome and Gnome Classic are offered.
Checking for installed rpms, xfce rpms have been upgraded. How can I continue using XFCe?
See:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/gnome-login-screen-no-longer-supports...
basically you are using gdm (The gnome display manager) and X11 support was disabled there, so it won't see Xfce sessions.
They are going to re-enable it for f42, see this test update: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-36e1759b84 which you could just test or wait for...
Or you could switch to lightdm:
dnf install lightdm-gtk sudo systemctl enable lightdm --force and reboot.
kevin
And if lightdm does not work, switch to lxdm. (I have three computers where lightdm works perfectly and one that it does not.)