desktop printing

[Jeffrey D. Yuille]

On Thursday 02 December 2004 02:34 pm, Arturo wrote:
> Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
> >On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:13 am, Arturo wrote:
> >>Rex Dieter wrote:
> >>>Arturo wrote:
> >>>> switching from GDM to KDM, I basically had to hack (using the term
> >>>>loosely) /etc/X11/prefdm script to get it to work.
> >>>
> >>>adding
> >>>DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
> >>>to
> >>>/etc/sysconfig/desktop
> >>>is a little easier.
> >>>
> >>>-- Rex
> >>
> >>I'm not sure if you've actually tried this, but it doesn't work. And
> >>reviewing the prefdm , I  can't seehow it's suppose to work at all. And
> >>I'm not the only who this did not work for. Obviously I may easily be an
> >>isolated information. Here's a link to a thread I had started on the
> >>issue:
> >>http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=201201
> >>&h ighlight=prefdm
> >><http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20120
> >>1& highlight=prefdm>
> >>
> >>Peace
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >     In fact, if you are trying to obtain the KDE desktop upon bootup
> > instead of getting the Bluecurve desktop by default, all you need to do
> > is go to /etc/sysconfig/desktop and where it says "Gnome" , change it to
> > "KDE". You need root priviledges, though.
> >
> >Jeff
>
> Honestly I wasn't tring to make this into an issue, cause I got it to
> work with a little help from LQ.org.....but Ithe point I was tring to
> brign forward is, maybe Fedora could pay a little more attention to KDE
> users. I could be wrong here becuase this happened since the beginning
> of FC2, but I did everything the tutorial I was flowing stated, to no
> avail. A little radiobutton in Anaconda to select primary desktop would
> be much apperiated.
>
> Peace
Hello Arturo, 

     I certainly agree with you.  It would be nice if the developers at Fedora 
Core could pay more attention to KDE within the distribution, especially at 
startup.  I have used KDE since I started using Linux and wouldn't use 
anything else.  

Jeff