Comments on: How to Install and Switch Desktop Environments in Fedora

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 03:54:20 +0000

In reply to SenileOtaku. @SenileOtaku, I hear your frustration. It sounds like a tough setup, especially on a headless system. Have you tried manually setting the session in `~/.xsession` or `~/.xinitrc`? Also, for x2go, XFCE usually works best. Let me know if you need more suggestions...

By: SenileOtaku

SenileOtaku — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:33:22 +0000

Switchdesk is not recognizing *ANY* of the desktop environments listed in /usr/share/xsessions. I need to find SOME environment x2go won't fail on, since I need a GUI I can occasionally run on a headless server. Why is it that more and more things are becoming broken on Linux, things that used to work in the past? I can't set the values at the GUI/X11 login screen because, as I said, it's a HEADLESS system. Tested the same thing with an Ubuntu VM, and ALL the remote desktop options are broken. I've wasted hours of trying to make this work. I can't just export an app to my local system, because a couple of thew ones I need won't see the remote directories even though I'm running it on the remote system.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:33:26 +0000

In reply to Fcee.

@Fcee,

I’ve updated the article. You can check it now! Let me know if you need any further changes or additional information.

By: Fcee

Fcee — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 01:19:16 +0000

In reply to Aaron Kili.

So, where is the update?

By: J.D.

J.D. — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 00:34:30 +0000

Thank you! It works just fine for me on Fedora 33. I didn't opt to install the switching application. I just log out and switch at the login manager, then log back in. I left out the '@' at the beginning the first time and it gave me an error. But, when I properly included that, I was able to install multiple Desktop Environments without an issue.