F17 fedora xfce spin: what display manager?

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Sun Jan 27 04:42:26 UTC 2013


Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:09:56 +0000
> Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:33:44 +0300
>> Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina at rktmb.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> For F16, the XFCE spin DM was GDM.
>>> What is the status for F17 and F18?
>>> Did it switch to LighDM or not yet?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>
>> F18 lightdm F17 also iirc
>
> Yeah, f18 has switched to lightdm, but the default in f17 was still
> gdm.
>
> You can of course switch yourself to lightdm just fine in f17.
> (or f16 for that matter).
>
I am happy with XFCE in fc18, haven't dug too deep into the stuff involved 
because it "just worked."


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