A Look at Fedora 18

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 20:33 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:55:53 +1030, Tim wrote:
> 
> > Tim:
> > >> There's no desktop chooser (in the GDM logon screen) on
> > >> Fedora to let me quickly see what desktop I'm using.
> > 
> > Michael Schwendt:
> > > There is. It appears after you choose/enter the user name.
> > 
> > There isn't.  
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y
> 
> > Nowhere on the logon screen is anything that gives you a
> > desktop choice.
> > 
> > I've seen that kind of option (either in a taskbar, or within the logon
> > box), and used it, on other releases, but it's nowhere to be seen on my
> > Fedora 17 install.
> 
> Although this thread is about F18, GDM with F17 shows the "Session"
> selector field in the same way as F18. Once you choose the user to
> log in, the field appears below the password box.
> 
> I've used it frequently with F17 to switch between GNOME and Openbox
> (yum -y install openbox).

Just for completeness: you can also use KDM with similar functionality.

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