The GDM greeter does not offer KDE as desktop after installing the group "KDE Plasma Workspaces"

Joachim Backes joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Thu Apr 3 10:53:22 UTC 2014


On 04/03/2014 12:33 PM, Martin Briza wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:36:02 +0200, Joachim Backes
> <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> 
>> I installed the env group "KDE Plasma Workspaces" and expected that
>> after logout KDE is offered as additional desktop env, but I don't see
>> this if pressing the gear-wheel on the gdm login greeter.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Joachim Backes
> 
> Quite possibly GDM only lists the new sessions when it starts, so try
> either restarting GDM (systemctl restart gdm.service) or rebooting.
> 
> Everything necessary to start the session is in the kde-workspace package.
> 

yum install @kde-desktop

solved my problem.

Kind regards

Joachim Backes

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