On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 4:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 12:51 -0700, InvalidPath wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 12:21 PM, Michael Singh <mich...@wadadli.me> > wrote: > > > On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 08:23 -0700, InvalidPath wrote: > > > > Tl;Dr I had to reinstall gnome-desktop in order to have a working > > > > DE.... which sucks because I am not using gnome. > > > > > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > > > > > > > Perhaps, you were missing the GNOME Display Manager package. > > > > > > Sent via Migadu.com, world's easiest email hosting > > > _______________________________________________ > > > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > > > > WOuld that cause KDE. Plasma or any other DE to not work? > > Of course. The DE is not the same as the Display Manager. The DM is > what shows the login screen. The DE handles the user experience once > login has occurred. The two things are independent. In a typical > workstation it's expected that the user will log in via a DM, almost > any of which can select which DE is to be used, though normally GDM is > used for Gnome and SDDM for KDE/Plasma. > > It's possible to use a DE without a DM, but that means logging into a > Shell console and starting it by hand, normally via startx which has > its own configuration. > > poc > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > The DE is not the same as the Display Manager. The DM is what shows the login screen. The DE handles the user experience once login has occurred Yeah that what I discovered earlier. Before today I thought they were one and the same.
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