Just tried kde-redhat on a FC2-machine, but it did not have internationalisation for the office-packages, so I did a downgrade back to a very vanilla up to date FC2/Updates/Extras/Livna-machine. The downgrade was actually quite smoothly done, but one last thing is haunting me. The default desktop through GDM is still KDE. I cannot see any suspicious thin in any of the configuration files i am aware of: /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf looks unsuspicious to me /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions includes both GNOME and KDE /etc/X11/dm/Sessions includes GNOME $ cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop DESKTOP="GNOME" # switchdesk gnome -> no effect $ switchdesk gnome -> no effect # gdmsetup I cannot find any configuration tool to set the default desktop. Do I miss anything out? In the meantime I am even thinking of KDM having genetically modified itself to look exactly like GDM. Simply: I ran out of ideas. Maybe somebody knows the little bit I am missing out. Thanks Markus