Beartooth Sciurivore wrote: > > >> install, and use it then you can create a file /etc/sysconfig/desktop >> and put into it lines like the following: >> DESKTOP="GNOME" >> DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" >> The latter sets kdm to be the login manager. If you restart X then >> first time you try to login you need to select which desktop session >> type you want - and then it becomes your default on that machine. > > Sorry -- you're about 101.5 yards over my head. I wasn't even > thinking about installs nor spins. Maybe that means I shouldn't be trying > this. > > /etc/sysconfig does not presently contain any file nor folder > called desktop. If I create a file, with just those two lines, and call > > Yes you will find that there is currently no file with this name. You need to become root, then cd /etc/sysconfig then use any text editor to create a file, which MUST be called desktop, containing the two lines I quoted above. The first line will give a gnome desktop by default if GNOME is between the quotes, and if you use KDE then the default desktop is KDE4. In the second line KDE (note it is not KDM in that file!) will select KDM as the login manager. If you either restart X or reboot the machine then when X starts KDM will be the login manager and will remain so unless you change the desktop file you created. You will then have the KDM greeter but when you login you will get the gnome desktop by default. When the greeter opens you can use the pull down menu below the list of usernames to select a KDE login instead if you wish. First time you use it you will be required to select gnome or kde otherwise it won't log you in. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Suggestion---replace-gdm-with-kdm-as-the-default-tp22527699p22542963.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.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
