Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: Remove Gnome from GDM options

2014-10-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-10-04, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 18:34:14 -0400 Mark LaPierre wrote: The best way to achieve your end is to delete the unused desktop installations from your machine. Software not installed is the best defence against attack directed at that

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: Remove Gnome from GDM options

2014-10-05 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 20:17:45 + (UTC) Liam O'Toole wrote: You could find out what packages the .desktop files belong to (when they are back in their original location): rpm -qf /usr/share/xsessions/gnome* Then remove the corresponding package(s) using yum. Obviously, check for

[CentOS] Centos 7: Remove Gnome from GDM options

2014-10-04 Thread Frank Cox
When you click on the gear icon on the GDM login screen, it provides a list of the available desktop environments so you can pick between them. Since I exclusively use Mate on this computer, how can I remove the other options from that menu? Earlier today when I logged in the machine decided

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: Remove Gnome from GDM options

2014-10-04 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 10/04/14 16:55, Frank Cox wrote: When you click on the gear icon on the GDM login screen, it provides a list of the available desktop environments so you can pick between them. Since I exclusively use Mate on this computer, how can I remove the other options from that menu? Earlier

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: Remove Gnome from GDM options

2014-10-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 18:34:14 -0400 Mark LaPierre wrote: The best way to achieve your end is to delete the unused desktop installations from your machine. Software not installed is the best defence against attack directed at that software I agree, but I don't know what packages I can remove

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: Remove Gnome from GDM options

2014-10-04 Thread Jay Leafey
On 10/04/2014 03:55 PM, Frank Cox wrote: When you click on the gear icon on the GDM login screen, it provides a list of the available desktop environments so you can pick between them. Since I exclusively use Mate on this computer, how can I remove the other options from that menu? Earlier

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: Remove Gnome from GDM options

2014-10-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 18:27:24 -0500 Jay Leafey wrote: Well, I haven't tried it, but I believe the available session types are stored in desktop files in /usr/share/xsessions. You could move the ones you don't want to a different location and see how the picker in GDM behaves... a bit like