[CentOS] CentOS 7 and display managers

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Fri, March 11, 2016 10:46 am, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Richard wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Date: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:33:57 -0500
>>> From: m.roth at 5-cent.us
>>>
>>> So, now that I've gotten that out, the KDE display manager, on the
>>> login screen, easily lets you choose window managers. Gnome utterly
>>> refuses to consider such an idea.
>>>
>>> I've just yum groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces" on one of my
>>> user's new system... and I cannot figure out, not in googling, and
>>> there's nothing vaguely obvious anywhere, how to change to KDE from
>>> gnome.
>>
>> With gnome there is a "gear wheel" on the password entry page -- on
>> the right below the password box, next to the "sign in" label. If I
>> select it I can switch between gnome and mate. Does KDE show there as
>> an option?
>
> Fascinating. Not in ours. It displays our issue, and in the upper left,
> some icons that let you deal with sound, I think, connection, maybe, and I
> forget what else.

In my case the gear which when clicked of gives you drop down choices of
Desktop Environments (DE) installed appears only after I click on
particular user. In other words, when user has password field, he also has
a gear to click on to choose DE.

I hope, this helps.

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
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