Many thanks Warren to the speedy reply. I found this after Googling around:- I have installed KDE and this works. ______________________________<div id="1fhc" class="ArwC7c ckChnd">______________________________________ In Fedora 9 there appears to be no GUI-based way of configuring this (e.g., via 'System Settings'). Nevertheless, it is pretty easy. You do need to become root to do it (e.g., 'sudo su'). The script: /etc/X11/prefdm is run at startup time; it looks for /etc/sysconfig/desktop and if it exists, 'sources' it. It then checks to see if the DISPLAYMANAGER variable is set and, if so, uses its value to try to determine which display manager to use (expecting it to be one of: GNOME, KDE, WDM, XDM). If this variable is not set, it tries to execute, in this order: gdm kdm wdm xdm So the first of these that runs successfully is the one that will be used, if the DISPLAYMANAGER variable is not set. On my system /etc/sysconfig/desktop did not exist, so prefdm was executing gdm. The solution, of course, is to create /etc/sysconfig/desktop and simply put this line in it: DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE If the file exists, of course, just make sure DISPLAYMANAGER is set as above. (Reference: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/garnome-list/2002-September/msg00028.html" target="_blank">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/garnome-list/2002-September/msg00028.html</a> ________________________________________________________________________ In my case this does not work as I am using Win4Lin VDS to dish out 2000/XP desktops to a school system, I have installed the configuration with Fedora 8/LTSP 4.2 and Win4Lin VDS, in LDM i've been able to set the default session. I am at a lost to how I could set LDM to default to Win4Lin in Fedora9/LTSP5/Win4Lin VDS? the xsession for Win4Lin is mergepro.xsessions. Any help would be very appreciated.<div class="Ih2E3d"> Thanks in advance Andrew Osborne </div></div>