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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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Thanks, Mark_Steward_1337, you're right. I've added your clarification.
Your desktop environment should pick up users added through either the GUI or the shell. Both methods are making the same system calls, so there's really no difference. If you're having problems with that, then you may have something misconfigured (maybe your desktops don't know where to look for $HOME?), or maybe you're using the wrong command, or maybe the system you're on isn't using UNIX local users (on larger systems, users are defined in LDAP or similar).