On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:56:02PM +0000, Peter Alcibiades wrote:

Not at all an expert on Fedora (I installed it for a while but replaced it with Debian). However, the problem is how to configure GDM.

When I start up GDM, there is a button someplace, it depends exactly how its configured where it is, which lets you pick the session. It should be something like Options > Select Session, and on my version of GDM its down at the bottom left of the screen. This should show you all the different WMs you have.

When you pick the session option you want, it should then ask you whether you want to make the new session your default or not.

But I'm left feeling that it cannot be this simple a problem or you'd have seen it at once. Is it maybe that when you install the other WMs they are not finding their way into the Sessions menu? That seems very odd. As far as I recall, it worked fine with my short lived Fedora install.

This is what I had hoped for and it's how my installation of wdm at home used to work. However on this gdm there's no window manager selection available, you just get Gnome whether you like it or not.

However I have fixed the problem by running at init level 3 (no X) and then running startx manually, it works better from the environment set up point of view as well because the inital login runs my .profile which gdm doesn't.