MATE desktop

[Mihai T. Lazarescu]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 09:27:14PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 06:59:07AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> > 
> > One thing I noticed, 'gdm' appears to use gnome-shell, so if you have a system w/out
> > accelerated graphics, your CPU will still be eaten by gnome-shell even if you log into
> > MATE.
> 
> I don't think that is correct, I have gdm installed, and no gnome-shell.
> These are the only dependencies for gdm:
> 
> $ rpm -e --test gdm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         gdm is needed by (installed) xfce4-xfswitch-plugin-0.0.1-8.fc18.x86_64
>         gdm >= 1:2.22.0 is needed by (installed) pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-2.1-6.fc18.x86_64

gdm requires gnome-shell, not gnome-shell requires gdm:

    rpm -q --requires gdm | grep gnome
    gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
    gnome-keyring-pam
    gnome-session
    gnome-settings-daemon >= 2.21.92
    gnome-shell

Mihai