Comment 17 for bug 457046

I'm using the gnome-shell --replace in the startup applications to initiate the session, this method at least doesn't lose the pointer, of which I can confirm losing with other methods. Sleeping helped sometimes but this is requiring a delay which is similar to the above method, just helps clean up the effect of the switch (visually). Had read somewhere about starting at the xinit file to avoid loading of the standard desktop but haven't dug into that as of yet.