On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 17:34 +0200, Rody wrote: > I believe the command startkde should start kde from command line. > If you want to make kde the default desktop to start when going to > init 5, > edit the following file: /etc/sysconfig/desktop > > and put these two lines in it: > DESKTOP="KDE" > DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" I already tried startkde from my memory, but, it did not work. With a long scroll of error message. Now I get it from your mail why it did so. Anyway, the 'switchdesktop' thing suggested by Searle will work prefectly for me. I don't want make KDE my default. Only when I want it. -- das