Parallel desktops

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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> Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> |> Unless I'm missing something, it's just matter of installing gdm and
> |> xfce, and you should be ready to go.
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> | Oh obviously you also need to change back /etc/X11/prefdm to run gdm.
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> As Marco noted in IRC, the file in question is actually
> /etc/event.d/prefdm.  I don't know why we're not using the standard *DM
> system.
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> Having modified that file... it's not quite so simple.  For example, GDM
> now runs automatically, but can't do anything, because it isn't aware of
> any valid session types.

Strange. Do you have any desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions ? Sugar
should be installing one at least.

Marco