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Gnome Shell pain and Gnome 2 deliverance

Posted Aug 25, 2011 10:44 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)
In reply to: Gnome Shell pain and Gnome 2 deliverance by scripter
Parent article: Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Alpha

I'm using Fedora 16 and XFCE. With a very little bit of tweaking the experience is similar to GNOME 2.

All you need to do is:

yum install @XFCE

and then log out, and on the login screen select "XFCE session".

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Gnome Shell pain and Gnome 2 deliverance

Posted Aug 25, 2011 16:17 UTC (Thu) by SiliconSlick (subscriber, #39955) [Link]

then log out, and on the login screen select "XFCE session".

The trick there being to select it from the gdm login (after selecting your account/username) and not using the usual desktop switching tool (which is broken).

Gnome Shell pain and Gnome 2 deliverance

Posted Aug 27, 2011 20:23 UTC (Sat) by nb (subscriber, #61815) [Link]

That way also makes it easy to switch if you want to use different desktops, like Gnome, KDE, XFCE, etc., all on the same computer.