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Bug 709307 - Support to select desktop environments for user accounts without a password
Support to select desktop environments for user accounts without a password
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 634811
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-10-02 19:23 UTC by Bastián Díaz
Modified: 2013-12-29 17:04 UTC
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Description Bastián Díaz 2013-10-02 19:23:00 UTC 
Currently you can not select a different desktop environment on user accounts that have no password via GDM. Especially in GNU/Linux, it is very usual to use more than one desktop environment (or different versions like GNOME classic session), for testing or other uses.

If winds handle a user account without a password is not recommended, it is a valid option, and is supported by GNOME.

As an idea, it would be interesting to highlight a user in GDM, see the gear button that lets you select a different desktop environment.

Thanks
Comment 1 Bastián Díaz 2013-10-16 02:42:04 UTC 
In GNOME 3.10 is not allowed to create a user account without a password. However, I believe that this bug report remains open, should be possible to create a guest user account.

Thank you.
Comment 2 Michael Catanzaro 2013-12-29 17:04:59 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 634811 ***