How do I set Xfce as my gdm default?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 13 December 2011 11:34, Todd And Margo Chester
<toddandmargo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/13/2011 09:09 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:17:09 -0800
>> Todd And Margo Chester<toddandmargo at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I just set up a computer with Scientific Linux 6.1, using
>>> the default "Workstation".  Then I installed Xfce.

Check to see if the user has a .dmrc file
[Desktop]
Session=xfce
Language=en_US.utf8
Layout=us

will get you xfce

gnome will get you gnome over the default.


>>> Question, how do I change my gdm default from gnome to Xfce?
>>>
>>>      /etc/gdm/custom.conf
>>>      [daemon]
>>>      DefaultSession=xfce.desktop
>>>
>>> Does not work.  What am I doing wrong?
>>
>>
>> Not sure. Might need to be just 'xfce' ?
>
>
> "Supposedly" it has to be the same thing that appears in
> /usr/share/xsessions
>
>
>>
>> Alternately, you do know that once you choose the xfce session it
>> should remember and always give you that one by default. ;)
>>
>> kevin
>
>
> The buzzard goes right back to gnome.
>
> Is it just me or did gdm get worse with recent
> releases?
>
>
> -T
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