Parallel desktops

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
> <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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>> There have been periodic suggestions, including some by potential OLPC
>> buyers, that they would be more interested if the project offered a GUI
>> that more closely resembled the environments to which they are accustomed.
>> ~ I strongly disagree with these people, feeling instead that Glucose is
>> already a highly effective environment with a very bright future.
>> However, it seems that some deployments, seeing Glucose as unfamiliar,
>> might instead choose Windows, which I hate to death [1].
>>
>> To demonstrate that we too can play the same old desktop game, I would
>> like to construct a disk image for the XO that provides, on each login, a
>> choice between Sugar and a standard desktop environment.  Indeed, we may
>> even choose to ape Windows to the edge of nausea, like LXDE [2], or
>> Windows-ish XFCE themes [3], just to prove that we can.
>>
>> I would like to collect all information necessary to execute this task,
>> which we have been talking about for months if not years.  I am told that
>> precisely this sort of desktop switching is already working on Ubuntu,
>> using gdm.  What is its status under Fedora 9 and the new joyride?  What
>> needs to be done?
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> Unless I'm missing something, it's just matter of installing gdm and
> xfce, and you should be ready to go.

Oh obviously you also need to change back /etc/X11/prefdm to run gdm.

Marco