On 10/04/2014 03:55 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
When you click on the gear icon on the GDM login screen, it provides a list of
the available desktop environments so you can pick between them.
Since I exclusively use Mate on this computer, how can I remove the other
options from that menu? Earlier today when I logged in the machine decided on
its own that what I really wanted was Gnome Classic, so I had to log out to
change it back to Mate, then log in again.
I would like to tell it to use Mate exclusively, with no other options to
select by mistake.
Well, I haven't tried it, but I believe the available session types are
stored in desktop files in /usr/share/xsessions. You could move the
ones you don't want to a different location and see how the picker in
GDM behaves... a bit like swatting a fly with a hammer, but as long as
you can move them back it should be OK. I found mention of this in an
Ubuntu-oriented forum somewhere, don't recall where.
Here's what that directory on my C7 box, with MATE installed, looks like:
[root@megamind gdm]# ls /usr/share/xsessions
gnome-classic.desktop gnome.desktop
gnome-custom-session.desktop mate.desktop
[root@megamind gdm]#
I would try moving all of the .desktop files elsewhere temporarily and
see if that changes the available desktop list.
YMMV!
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Jay Leafey - jay.lea...@mindless.com
Memphis, TN
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