Re: gdm3

[Richard <richard.bown@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:35:59 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:58:15 +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> 
> > With new gdm3 entering testing, 
> 
> gdm3 has been available in wheezy since time ago...
> 
> > I have a problem with it. It does not honour ~/.dmrc, where I could
> > have set my desktop of choice. Looking around found that ~/.dmrc is no
> > longer the place to set the wm/de  of choice.
> 
> Now is located at "/var/lib/AccountsService/users/your_username", I guess.
> 
> > Frustrated, installed lightdm. It also has the same problem. Every time
> > I login, I have to select the de/wm. Any pointers for getting over this
> > problem?
> 
> It works fine here. After I select a session type (gnome/fallback mode/
> whatever) it is remembembered for the next login.
> 
> Greetings,
> 

I'm still not seeing any choice on the login pulldown menu for desktop choice.

How do I invoke it from CLI, after killing the Xserver, using startx into xfce ?

-- 
Best wishes / 73
Richard Bown

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

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