On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 13:09 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 15:07 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > This is > > > why /etc/sysconfig/desktop is not a candidate for the job. > > > > So how come it works for me and apparently many other people? > ---- > I'm under the impression that settings in /etc/sysconfig/desktop... > > DISPLAYMANAGER= > > has the effect of choosing which dm launches at next startup/launch of > runlevel 5 > > DESKTOP= > > has the effect of choosing which desktop manager is the default for > users who haven't logged in previously. > > I could be wrong and I've done no intelligent research on this but this > is what I think I have come to understand happens. > > Craig > Ypou are absolutely correct but I wanted to change the window manager not the display manager. I am sorry I got the terms confused in a previous message. switchdesk is supposed to do this. -- ======================================================================= no brainer: A decision which, viewed through the retrospectoscope, is "obvious" to those who failed to make it originally. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines