How to get choice of Desktop environment at start?

[shantiq]

I have 13.04 installed with gnome-fallback

and writing in the poll thread linked above i thought why not try another one; so have installed Mate and that went fine


Now my question is how do i pick it at startup [no options are given me at any point]


I recall having written /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-settings-daemon.desktop

[Desktop Entry]Type=Application
Name=GNOME Settings Daemon
Exec=/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;
NoDisplay=true
X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Initialization
X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=true
X-GNOME-AutoRestart=true
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-settings-daemon

so that it would pick gnome-fallback each time automatically; now i see this page here shows how to fix it so Mate is the choice

thus

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Mate Settings Daemon
Exec=/usr/bin/mate-settings-daemon
OnlyShowIn=MATE;
NoDisplay=true
X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Initialization
X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=true
X-GNOME-AutoRestart=true

But i do not want fixed Mate; i just want the option to try it out and probably will return to my current setup unless it is amazing


now fiddling with /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-settings-daemon.desktop

can be a dicey business i am sure

so please what do i need to write in the file to be given a choice at startup?

Please only replies from folks who really know about this


PS if there is another route not with /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-settings-daemon.desktop will be glad to hear about that too

[deadflowr]

All of the DEs listed in the login screen are listed in /usr/share/xsessions, if that helps.

[shantiq]

thanx D it yields

/usr/share/xsessions$ ls
gnome.desktop gnome-fallback-compiz.desktop gnome-fallback.desktop mate.desktop ubuntu.desktop XBMC.desktop

so i see what is there but it still looks as if

/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-settings-daemon.desktop is where the entries have to be modified somehow