I've been having this problem for quite a while: on my desktop machine running
8.1, and on a Dell at work on which I just installed 8.2 RC1.  The permissions
for my ~/.gnome/gdm file are as "Mr. Necro" suggested they should be.

When I ran the GDM Configurator and change the default Session to Gnome, a
symbolic link is created in "/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions" called "default" that
points to the file "Gnome" in the same directory.  However, when I rebooted
the machine, a new link was created called "Default" that pointed to KDE.  And
when I went back to GDM Configurator, KDE was highlighted as the default
session.

I figured out that /usr/sbin/fndSession, which is run by
/etc/init.d/mandrake_everytime on startup, is creating the "Default" link.
Why are there two links in the first place?  Is gdm just looking at the wrong
one?  (Do I even need to build these sessions every time I reboot?)

I'm on my way to tracing fndSessions steps to try to fix/prevent this, but if
someone has already invented this wheel, I'd like to hear about it.

- Kathy

"Mr. Necro" wrote:

> Hey, when I wanted to change my default session for gdm I simply did as
> you did and went into
>
> /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions
>
> then I opened up Default and default in emacs, then simply changed the
> line to the one found in the Gnome file (also in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions).
>  I backed up all the files for the original directory, then saved
> everything (as root of course) and rebooted.
>
> I don't know if you already did this, or if I'm telling you things that
> are redundant, but that's what I did and it seemed to fix the problem,
> as my default is now Gnome and I don't have to manually select it from
> sessions any longer.


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