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Re: Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable?



On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:07:10 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:56:17 +0000, Richard wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:46:37 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> 
> >> For those who can't see any other login sessions other than gnome/gnome
> >> fallback/default they should run:
> >> 
> >> ls -l /usr/share/xsessions
> >> 
> >> To check what's there.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> > I have :-
> > 
> > richard@debian:~$ ls -l /usr/share/xsessions 
> > total 24
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6702 Oct 14 11:44 gnome.desktop 
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6987 Oct 14 11:44 gnome-fallback.desktop 
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5808 Oct 24 21:50 xfce.desktop 
> 
> It looks right ("gnome", "gnome fallback", "xfce" and "default" options 
> should be visible).
> 
> > But no pulldown on the login menu, any ideas how to get this added
> 
> Let's see... at the login greeter window you have to click on your user 
> name (richard) and then the available sessions will be visible from a 
> dropdown menu. 
> 
> Are you doing it in that way? If yes and still no dropdown button, can 
> you upload a snapshot?
> 
> Greetings,
> 

Sorry printscreen doesn't function until logged in.

Now if I remember right I can put in .desktop DESKTOP=xfce
I don't know if that works in debian, if it does I maybe able to force it out of fallback, if thats
what I'm in.

-- 
Best wishes / 73
Richard Bown

e-mail: richard@g8jvm.com   or   richard.bown@blueyonder.co.uk

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