My suggestion was never meant as a long term solution. It was meant as a very quick and dirty way to get kdm up and running. I also pointed the person to /etc/X11/perfdm which is where the decision is made as to what display manager gets run. I apologize that I didn't make that clear. Paolo <div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/16 Todd Zullinger <<a href="mailto:tmz@pobox.com">tmz@pobox.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">Paolo Galtieri wrote: > If you want to run kdm instead od gdm do the following at a console > login (ctl-alt-f1) after logging in as root </div>VT1 is X on F10 and newer. So you'd want to use ctrl-alt-f2 to get a console. <div class="im"> > mv /usr/sbin/gdm /usr/sbin/gdm.orig </div>Why move system files around? The next update will just put the file back anyway, so that seems like a bad way to change the default. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: <a href="http://www.pobox.com/%7Etmz/pgp" target="_blank">www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp</a> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Despite the high cost of living, it remains a popular item. -- 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> </blockquote></div>