selecting default session with gdm

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Andrew Choens wrote:
>>vi /etc/sysconfig/desktop
> 
> That will definitely work, but I prefer to use the simplest method
> possible which is:
> 
> 1)  Start gnome-terminal and type....
> 2)  switchdesk xfce
> 
> You'll get some feedback from the system and it will tell you that
> your default desktop has been changed to XFCE.  This will ONLY change
> it for the user you are running it as.  So, on my system, a user
> (let's say Tom) has done this.  Tom will load XFCE when he logs in
> while everyone else continues to use GNOME.  In contrast, changing the
> file in /etc will change the default login for everyone on your
> system.
> 
> I don't know which you want to do.

I wanted to change it for all users (currently only two, me and my wife, 
but I hope that our 6-months old son will learn not to type rm -rf / as 
root soon enough, and than he'll get an account too ;-)  ).

Anyhow, I attempted to change /etc/sysconfig/desktop, but I always got 
GNOME as default session.  Maybe I did something stupid like forgetting 
to restart GDM or something.  I'll play with it a bit more when I get home.

BTW, are values in /etc/sysconfig/desktop case sensitive?  Should I have 
inthere something like "XFCE", or "xfce", or "XFCE4"?

> Also, if you don't know vi, any editor will work.

(x)emacs would probably be an overkill for editing one-line file, so I 
guess I'll stick with vi for this job ;-)

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