thanks a lot, it works <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:52 PM, John Austin <<a href="mailto:ja@jaa.org.uk">ja@jaa.org.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 11:34 +0100, Alain Roger wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Kevin Kofler <<a href="mailto:kevin.kofler@chello.at">kevin.kofler@chello.at</a>> > wrote: > John Austin wrote: > > I have this in mine > > Pretty sure that its not all necessary !! > > > > tarifa ~ 1001# cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop > > DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" > > > This sets the display manager to KDM. > > > DESKTOP="XFCE" > > This sets the systemwide default desktop to XFCE. (It can be > overridden per > user.) The original poster probably wants DESKTOP="KDE" > instead. > > > WINDOWMANAGER="XFCE" > > DISPLAY="KDE" > > I'm not sure either of those 2 are actually used, they're both > not necessary > in any case. > > Kevin Kofler > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> > To unsubscribe: > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> > Guidelines: > <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> > > > in my installation i do not have /etc/sysconfig/desktop :-( > how is it possible while i can switch from GNOME to KDE environment at > login window ? > </div></div>> -- Assuming you have KDE installed then the choice between Gnome and KDE will be in one of the login pull down menus I haven't got the Gnome Display Manager on any of my machines and so can't tell you exactly If you wish to set the login window to KDM then just create /etc/sysconfig/desktop with gedit or some other editor and add the single line (with a RETURN char) DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" John -- <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Alain ----------------------------------------------------------- Windows XP x64 SP2 / Fedora 10 KDE 4.2 PostgreSQL 8.3.5 / MS SQL server 2005 Apache 2.2.10 PHP 5.2.6 C# 2005-2008