When you click on the gear icon on the GDM login screen, it provides a list of the available desktop environments so you can pick between them. Since I exclusively use Mate on this computer, how can I remove the other options from that menu? Earlier today when I logged in the machine decided on its own that what I really wanted was Gnome Classic, so I had to log out to change it back to Mate, then log in again. I would like to tell it to use Mate exclusively, with no other options to select by mistake. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com
On 10/04/14 16:55, Frank Cox wrote:> When you click on the gear icon on the GDM login screen, it provides a list of the available desktop environments so you can pick between them. > > Since I exclusively use Mate on this computer, how can I remove the other options from that menu? Earlier today when I logged in the machine decided on its own that what I really wanted was Gnome Classic, so I had to log out to change it back to Mate, then log in again. > > I would like to tell it to use Mate exclusively, with no other options to select by mistake. >The best way to achieve your end is to delete the unused desktop installations from your machine. Software not installed is the best defence against attack directed at that software. -- _ ?v? /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ****
On 10/04/2014 03:55 PM, Frank Cox wrote:> When you click on the gear icon on the GDM login screen, it provides a list of the available desktop environments so you can pick between them. > > Since I exclusively use Mate on this computer, how can I remove the other options from that menu? Earlier today when I logged in the machine decided on its own that what I really wanted was Gnome Classic, so I had to log out to change it back to Mate, then log in again. > > I would like to tell it to use Mate exclusively, with no other options to select by mistake. >Well, I haven't tried it, but I believe the available session types are stored in desktop files in /usr/share/xsessions. You could move the ones you don't want to a different location and see how the picker in GDM behaves... a bit like swatting a fly with a hammer, but as long as you can move them back it should be OK. I found mention of this in an Ubuntu-oriented forum somewhere, don't recall where. Here's what that directory on my C7 box, with MATE installed, looks like:> [root at megamind gdm]# ls /usr/share/xsessions > gnome-classic.desktop gnome.desktop > gnome-custom-session.desktop mate.desktop > [root at megamind gdm]#I would try moving all of the .desktop files elsewhere temporarily and see if that changes the available desktop list. YMMV! -- Jay Leafey - jay.leafey at mindless.com Memphis, TN