no, you are mixing gnome-shell and gdm here
gnome-shell for sure is not started before login
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Display_Manager
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Display_Manager
Am 31.10.2013 12:47, schrieb Oliver Ruebenacker:
When I boot, my system will start gnome-shell, before I can log in
and choose whether I want Gnome of KDE. When I
uninstall gnome-shell, it fails to boot.
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com
<mailto:pocallaghan@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli(a)gmail.com
<mailto:curoli@gmail.com>> wrote:
Can you run KDE on Fedora 19 without gnome-shell?
You can run KDE without any part of Gnome being installed. It's an entirely
separate desktop environment