F22: XFCE issues

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Thu May 28 00:02:57 UTC 2015


On 05/27/2015 04:36 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Joe Zeff  wrote:
>
>     On 05/27/2015 02:24 PM, Marco Guazzone wrote:
>
>         gdm       1152  0.6  1.5 1476048 123516 tty1   Sl+  22:35   0:16  |
>                  \_ gnome-shell --mode=gdm --wayland --display-server
>
>
>     Here it is: gdm is starting gnome-shell, even though gnome itself
>     isn't running.  I don't know why, but if it were me, I'd call it a
>     major bug.
>
>
> Not really.  GDM is nothing but GNOME Shell running in a login mode as
> seen evidently here.
>

Here's the description of gdm as given by yum info gdm:

Description : GDM provides the graphical login screen, shown shortly 
after boot
             : up, log out, and when user-switching.

You may very well be right, but if so, the documentation provided by yum 
doesn't back up your claim.



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