MATE desktop

[Suvayu Ali]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:05:27AM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote:
> 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

I'm sorry, but not here:

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

I do not have gnome-shell installed:

$ rpm -q gnome-shell
package gnome-shell is not installed

$ uname -r
3.10.9-100.fc18.x86_64

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Suvayu

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