Re: Switchdesk functionality has disappeared

2022-08-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 11:57 PM Robert McBroom wrote: > Fedora 36 booting mode 3 to a command line boot, the switchdesk entry > Plasma doesn't do anything > Looks like a bug fixed via https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-42f46048de (refer to bugs tab) Rahul ___

Re: Switchdesk functionality has disappeared

2022-08-03 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 23:56:39 -0400 Robert McBroom via users wrote: > Fedora 36 booting mode 3 to a command line boot, the switchdesk entry > Plasma doesn't do anything. I can switch from the default Gnome to > xfce and back. The LXDE desktop is not there at all. Getting a xterm > with xinit and a

Re: switchdesk

2014-09-11 Thread jd1008
On 09/10/2014 11:10 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/11/14 12:02, jd1008 wrote: Seems like switchdesk only provides ability to switch to kde icewm system defaults whereas I have other desktop managers installed, like lxde, fvwm. I looked to see of the selection menu might be controlled by a config

Re: switchdesk

2014-09-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/11/14 23:13, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Michael Hennebrywrote: > > Selecting a desktop is not hard. > Remembering to do it every time is hard. > Logging out and logging in again can be annoying. > Being able to set one's default desktop is

Re: switchdesk

2014-09-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > Selecting a desktop is not hard. > Remembering to do it every time is hard. > Logging out and logging in again can be annoying. > Being able to set one's default desktop is useful. Display manager should remember the last login. I

Re: switchdesk

2014-09-11 Thread Michael Hennebry
Selecting a desktop is not hard. Remembering to do it every time is hard. Logging out and logging in again can be annoying. Being able to set one's default desktop is useful. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necess

Re: switchdesk

2014-09-11 Thread Bill Oliver
I thought it was for systems where you had automatic logins. I've never set up my boxes that way, so I've never watched it happen. But if you really had a machine that would go from poweron to desktop without stopping for a login, you might not get the chance to change desktops the normal wa

Re: switchdesk

2014-09-11 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 11 September 2014, Ed Greshko sent: > Is there something more that switchdesk provides? Didn't it change the *default* offered to all users? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is

Re: switchdesk

2014-09-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/11/14 12:02, jd1008 wrote: > Seems like switchdesk only provides ability to switch to > kde > icewm > system defaults > > whereas I have other desktop managers installed, like lxde, fvwm. > > I looked to see of the selection menu might be controlled by a config > file. Did not find any file i