Resolving GDM issues with Fedora 9 (Sulpher) GDM is not fully supported in Fedora 9 because GDM was rewritten during the GNOME 2.21 release cycle ( ref ). gdmsetup is missing so you cannot customize your login and I had issues with user switching ( Cannot communicate with GDM (The GNOME Display Manager)). Also, GDM would not put my monitor into powersaving mode from the login screen which was a real issue. To resolve I reverted back to the fedora 8 versions of gdm and fast-user-switch applet. Note: this could be "dangerous" (ie, see below - you may be required to recreate your user account). 1) Download fc8 rpms for gdm, fast-user-switch-applet and fedorainfinity-gdm-theme (required to resolve a gdm dependecy) gdm-2.20.1-5.fc8.i386.rpm fast-user-switch-applet-2.20.0-1.fc8.i386.rpm fedorainfinity-gdm-theme-8.0.1-1.fc8.noarch.rpm 2) Remove the fc9 versions of gdm and gdm-user-switch-applet $sudo yum erase gdm 3) Install the fc8 versions: $sudo rpm
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