Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>>>Switchdesk is not installed by default. Try "yum install switchdesk"
>>>>followed by "yum install "switchdesk-gui" at the command-line.
>>As a matter of interest,
>>one can do it directly by editing /etc/sysconfig/desktop .
> Yes, interesting, but on this computer which uses XFCE [changed using
> switchdesk]
> I see the following?
>
> cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
> >> DESKTOP="GNOME"
> >> DISPLAYMANAGER="GNOME"
> >> EOF
>
> Perhaps >> denotes comment?
>
> I installed Gnome and KDE but normally use neither ...
I have
[tim@elizabeth ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
DESKTOP="KDE"
DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
I changed from GNOME by editing this file.
I guess as you suggest that ">>" means the line is ignored.
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