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80Part ILinux First StepsYou can just enter your login (username) and password to start up your personaldesktop environment. Your selected desktop environment KDE or GNOME comes up ready for you to use. Although the system defines a desktop environmentby default, you can typically change desktop environments on those Linux systems, such as Fedora, that offer both KDE and GNOME. X display managers can enable you to do a lot more than just get to your desktop. Although different graphical login screens offer different options, here are some youmay encounter: .Session Look for a Session button on the login screen (such as the one thatcomes with Fedora). From there, you can choose to start your login sessionwith a GNOME, KDE, or Failsafe environment. (Failsafe simply opens a Terminalwindow so, presumably, you can make a quick fix to the system without start- ing up a whole desktop environment.) .Language Linux systems that are configured to start multiple languagesmay give you the opportunity to choose a language (other than the defaultlanguage) to boot into. For this to work, however, you must have installedsupport for the language you choose. .Reboot or Shutdown There s no need to log in if all you want to do is turnoff or restart your computer. Most graphical login screens offer you the optionof rebooting or shutting down the machine from that screen. If you don t like the way the graphical login screen looks, or just want to assertgreater control over how it works, there are many ways of configuring and securingX graphical login screens. Later, once you are logged in, you can use the followingtools (as root user) to configure the login screen: .KDE Login Manager From the KDE control center, you can modify your KDEdisplay manager using the Login Manager screen (from KDE control center, select System Administration.Login Manager). You can change logos, back- grounds, color schemes, and other features related to the look-and-feel of thelogin screen. .GNOME Login Manager The GNOME display manager (gdm) comes with aLogin Screen Setup utility (from the desktop run the gdmconfigcommand asroot user). From the Login Screen Setup window, you can select the GraphicalGreeter tab and choose a whole different theme for the login manager. On theSecurity tab, you may notice that all TCP connections to the X server are dis- allowed. Don t change this selection because no processes other than thosehandled directly by your display manager should be allowed to connect to thelogin screen. After your login and password have been accepted, the desktop environment con- figured for your user account starts up. Users can modify their desktop environ- ments to suit their tastes (even to the point of changing the entire desktopenvironment used).