Fedora 42 Desktop Options: XFCe is not offered

[ToddAndMargo]

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
> [e-mail]

Does this help?

https://fedoraproject.org/spins/xfce/download

[Kevin Fenzi]

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

[ToddAndMargo]

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.)