On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Dave Feustel <dfeustel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 03:45:48PM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 18:54 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> > Eric <spamsink <at> scoot.netis.com> writes: >> > > installation. So, you need to log on as root, open up a terminal >> > > window, and say "yum groupinstall "KDE Softwarre Development"" ("yum >> > > groupinstall KDE" may also work but I didn't try that). >> > >> > It doesn't make sense to recommend installing "KDE Software Development" to the >> > average user, it's only for developers. Average users should just install the >> > regular KDE group (known as kde-desktop internally): >> > yum groupinstall kde-desktop >> > >> > > switchdesk is a command-line utility where you log on as yourself, >> > > open up a terminal window, and say "switchdesk KDE". If you try that >> > > and KDE isn't installed, it will tell you that you need to use "yum >> > > groupinstall "KDE Software Development"" to install KDE. >> > > >> > > If switchdesk isn't installed, you have to log on as root and say >> > > "yum install switchdesk" first. >> > >> > Note that switchdesk is reported not to work properly with the latest GDM. >> > >> > > The other way is, when you click on your userID in the login screen >> > > but before you type in the password, a small pulldown box will appear >> > > at the bottom center of the screen, containing all of the desktops >> > > you have installed. Click on the arrow and select "KDE" from that >> > > box, and from then on, until you change it, all of your logins will >> > > be to KDE (again, as long as you have KDE installed). >> > >> > There's a third option, which I recommend: >> > su - >> > echo 'DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"' >/etc/sysconfig/desktop >> > echo 'DESKTOP="KDE"' >>/etc/sysconfig/desktop >> >> This causes the KDE Display manager to come up but not the KDE session >> manger . >> The latter can be brought up by the icon in the bottom panel of Gnome >> Display Manager just before you enter the passwd. > > Ragardless, the kde4 desktop in F9 is quite broken as far as I can tell. > I find it hard to believe that any time was spent testing it before F9 > was released. Offtopic for this thread. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines