On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 09:41 +0000, Andrew R Paterson wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 November 2015 00:07:00 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-11-23 at 19:23 +0000, Andrew R Paterson wrote:
> > > I must be missing the point here, but I have always found that
> > > after
> > > installing multiple desktops and leaving gdm as the login
> > > manager,
> > > when you
> > > are asked for the password on login there is a little gear cog
> > > icon
> > > which if
> > > you click on brings up a menu of the different desktops you have
> > > installed -
> > > for instance I have CDE, GNOME, KDE .....
> > 
> > You're confusing Desktop Environment (DE) with Desktop Manager
> > (DM).
> > The DM handles the graphical login and other session stuff,
> > including
> > allowing you to select your DE, but the various DMs (gdm, kdm,
> > sddm,
> > ...) have slightly different capabilities.
> > 
> > poc
> I know that - but thats the problem! most people assume that in order
> to 
> change DE youi have to change DM!
> The "slightly different capabilities" you describe are so slight as
> make the 
> whole idea of using multiple DMs a pointless exercise.

Not so. As I think I mentioned once already, I changed from SDDM back
to KDM because the former doesn't support automatically opening gnome-
keyring on login. This is not a crippling failure, but it is a real
annoyance.

poc
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