GDM session switching
Gerry Tool
gstool at earthlink.net
Sun Nov 9 01:15:38 UTC 2003
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:45, Peter Eddy wrote:
> Gerry Tool wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 15:16, Richard E Miles wrote:
> >
> >>While trying to switch sessions on a temporary basis from kde to gnome
> >>the session remained kde. A warning to use the desktop switcher was
> >>indicated to make this permanent. Has anayone else noticed this behavior?
> >
> > I believe you are seeing the intended behavior. The current situation
> > allows you to on-demand log into the GUI you don't normally use, but
> > retains your normal GUI as the default if you don't explicitly select
> > one until you change that default by using desktop switcher while logged
> > in. The next login then is to your new default. I wodnered about it at
> > first, but now like it in case I don't remember that my last login
> > wasn't to my normal environment.
>
> At first I thought this was a bug, but now I think you're right, it's
> intentional. Though I haven't come to like it as you have. Why make
> things more complicated than necessary? Not to mention that, at least
> in KDE, the desktop switching tool is buried in System Settings -> More
> System Setings -> Desktop Swithing Tool. Hardly intuitive.
In Gnome it is found in the same place, plus in Preferences > More
Preferences > Desktop Switching Tool
>
> Didn't RedHat distributions prompt you to make the current selection the
> default when you changed it from gdm? That seems like a more intuitive
> way to me.
That is the way it used to work. I'm not sure how RHL9 has it - I'll
check it there next time I'm in that system. Give the new way some time
before you get upset.
Gerry
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