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Changing Desktop Environment by mistake

Hi,
I'm using fedora 15,
my defualt DE is XFCE I once saw that there is a option in startup DE's that I can select and it was OPENBOX. I just wanted to test it. but after choosing it as my DE here I am. I have just access to terminal, firefox.. what's in my desktop. there is no panel here. I want to go back to XFCE or Gnome 3.
when I restart my laptop it bypasses the startup login where I want to choose XFCE or Gnome.
please help me

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xfce4-session

xfce4-session(1)					      General Commands Manual						  xfce4-session(1)

NAME

       xfce4-session - Starts up the Xfce Desktop Environment

SYNOPSIS

       xfce4-session

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the xfce4-session command.

       The  xfce4-session  program starts up the Xfce Desktop Environment and is typically executed by your login manager (e.g. xdm, gdm, kdm, wdm
       or from your X startup scripts). It will load your last session or a default session that includes the standard Xfce programs if  no  saved
       session is available.

       xfce4-session is an standard X11R6 session manager that can manage any X11R6 SM compliant program, including GNOME and KDE programs.

       xfce4-session uses the contents of the ~/.cache/sessions/ directory for starting previously saved sessions.

OPTIONS

       xfce4-session takes the following command line options:

       --disable-tcp
	      Disable  binding	to  TCP  ports in the ICE layer. This is not possible on every platform. If you use this option on a platform that
	      does not support it, xfce4-session will print a warning message and ignore the setting.

       --help Print a help screen and exit.

       --version
	      Output version information and exit.

ENVIRONMENT

       xfce4-session's behaviour is affected by the following environment variables.

       XDG_CONFIG_HOME
	      Specifies the root for all user-specific configuration files. If this environment variable is unset, it defaults to ~/.config/

       XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
	      Set of preference ordered base directories relative to which configuration files should be searched in  addition	to  the  $XDG_CON-
	      FIG_HOME base directory. The directories should be separated with a colon.

       XDG_CACHE_HOME
	      Specifies the root for all user-specific cache data. If this environment variable is unset, it defaults to ~/.cache/

FILES

       xfce4-session reads its configuration from the file $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc.  xfce4-session stores its session data
       into $XDG_CACHE_HOME/sessions/.

AUTHOR

       xfce4-session was written by Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org> as part of the Xfce project.  This manual	page  was  written  by	Oliver	M.
       Bolzer <oliver@debian.org> and Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to http://bugzilla.xfce.org/.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Benedikt Meurer.

								   Nov 01, 2004 						  xfce4-session(1)

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