Login Screen set to Gnome Fallback Mode

English Install/Boot/Login
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Ok, I was really lucky that during the installation I set the automatic login so that I will not see the login screen upon bootup and go straight to my desktop but now I am planning to create other accounts so It means I need to logout and I can’t escape going to the login screen(Except for logging in using the terminal). Now my problem is my system crashes because my hardware I think doesn’t support the GNOME 3 graphics so when I first logged to my desktop I set my GNOME to fallback mode but **HOW I CAN SETUP THE LOGIN SCREEN ALSO TO GNOME FALLBACK MODE? **because I think the GNOME 3 default mode causes my system to crash when I shift to login screen.:\

my hardware specifications

Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHZ i386
NVIDIA GEFORCE FX 5500 256MB
2 GB RAM
ACER P166HQL

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In settings > details > graphics

Is yours set to On?
http://s20.postimg.org/xrel9r3s9/Screenshot_from_2013_06_12_05_14_15.jpg](http://postimg.org/image/xrel9r3s9/)

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yeah I set this already… only in my account the fallback works… can’t I make it to the whole system? especially on the login screen? :?

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Did you try logging out and check whether it crashes or not ?

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If you can’t find a better solution, you can switch to using “kdm” or “lightdm” to manage logins.

Are you using the “nouveau” driver, or the “nvidia” driver?

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I tried to logout already and see my login screen and still crashes and hungs.

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I am using nvidia drivers…

lightdm sounds lighter… how can I set it to manage my logins? thanks :wink:

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install lightdm

http://paste.opensuse.org/images/93706459.png

and then do this through YaST==>sysconfig and “restart”. Login in lightdm my fail sometimes. You log in into icewm or something, logout and then try logging into GNOME

http://paste.opensuse.org/images/65822882.png

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THIS WORKED LIKE A CHARM!!! THANK YOU!!! =)

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you are welcome. Glad it worked for you. If you hang around for a few months you can get GNOME > ver 3.8 on openSUSE 13.1 which is supposedly has GNOME classic mode or something like that.

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well thank you for the information :wink:

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Do you have a text file in /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/ ? If so, what is the setting under the section [org/gnome/desktop/session] ? session-name=‘gdm-shell’ or session-name=‘gdm-fallback’ ?

If its configured as shell, you can try changing it to fallback … and then do a

sudo dconf update

for it to take effect.

You’ll have to also switch the /etc/sysconfig/displaymanger setting you changed to lightdm back to gdm again first, but then you can check to see if that does the trick … and if it did, then afterwards, you will have the luxury of your choice of DM (by way of a simple little edit to the /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager)