MATE desktop

[Mihai T. Lazarescu]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 03:52:02AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:

> 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
             ^^^^

You appear to use F18, I (and OP?) am using F19:

    cat /etc/fedora-release 
    Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger's Cat)

Mihai