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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It would need design input but it's likely that we don't want our users
getting confused by having to learn that they use "unity" and that other
desktop and session can be installed or used, that's something rather
technical and that should probably be out of the standard options,
closing that bug

** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Invalid

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Title:
  System Settings should include a way to change default Desktop
  Environment

Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Maybe I'm not seeing it, but there doesn't seem to be a graphical way
  to set the default desktop environment. If I set login automatically,
  and I want to use Unity 2D I need to log out of Unity and log back in
  using Unity 2D. I would suggest that the "User Account" set the
  preferred desktop for each user. Not sure if this would be able to
  support LightDM and GDM, KDM, XDM etc.

  Currently, I find that the community lacks in knowledge about LightDM
  and how to configure it.

  Let's just say that I can't instruct someone who is frightened by CLI
  to edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf to read the following:

  [SeatDefaults]
  greeter-session=unity-greeter
  user-session=ubuntu-2d
  autologin-user=confusedgrandmother

  of yourse, you can always change the user-session=ubuntu-2d line to
  read another default desktop  environment (for the system, not per
  user). The environments are listed in /usr/share/xsessions/ - just
  remember to remove .desktop suffix.

  gnome
  gnome-shell
  kde-plasma
  Lubuntu
  Lubuntu-Netbook
  LXDE
  openbox
  openbox-gnome
  openbox-kde
  openbox.xsession
  ubuntu-2d
  ubuntu
  xfce
  xubuntu

  We've come a long way from gdm-setup.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.1.90-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun Sep  4 09:58:51 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110817)
  SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-27 (7 days ago)

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