On upgrading to F42 beta, I no longer have the option in gdm to select the normal Cinnamon desktop (Xorg). I have the “experimental Wayland” Cinnamon desktop.
Is this a new limitation of F42 or just because its in beta?
Michael
GDM no longer supports any Xorg sessions.
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isn’t Cinnamon supposed to use it’s own display manager (MDM)?
sorry if my question is silly.
edit: nvm, perhaps not. I just noticed that the Linux Mint team has archived the MDM repository, but they do have a repository for LightDM settings which is updated, so perhaps they’re using that now, I don’t know.
The Cinnamon spin used lightdm with slick-greeter-cinnamon as the associated greeter. By installing slick-greeter-cinnamon you should get lightdm installed as a dependency. For lightdm there are several other greeters available.
To switch to using lightdm run systemctl enable --force lightdm.service.
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Yes, changing the DM worked; although it seems that I had to disable gdm before enabling lightdm.
Its a pity the gnome folks chose to remove this capability.
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Actually, it seems that Fedora deliberately disabled this capability in the spec file of the RPM. (probably to make it hard for users to use Xorg).