HowTo: Enable Desktop in Fedora 18

This settings will give your Fedora 18 a much more familiar look and feel. This will move you to fallback mode and enable your desktop.

Step 1:
open terminal and type the following (double check your typings!!)

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session session-name gnome-fallback

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true

gnome-session-quit

**your desktop will be logged out**

Step 2:
log back in


How To Return Back:

Step 1:
open terminal and type the following (double check your typings!!)

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session session-name gnome

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false

gnome-session-quit

**your desktop will be logged out**

Step 2:
log back in