KDE occupies GDM

[Richard E Miles]

> Just tried kde-redhat on a FC2-machine, but it did not have
> internationalisation for the office-packages, so I did a downgrade back
> to a very vanilla up to date FC2/Updates/Extras/Livna-machine.
> 
> The downgrade was actually quite smoothly done, but one last thing is
> haunting me. The default desktop through GDM is still KDE.
> 
> I cannot see any suspicious thin in any of the configuration files i am
> aware of:
> 
> /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf looks unsuspicious to me
> /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions includes both GNOME and KDE
> /etc/X11/dm/Sessions includes GNOME
> 
> $ cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
> DESKTOP="GNOME"
> 
> # switchdesk gnome
> -> no effect
> 
> $ switchdesk gnome
> -> no effect
> 
> # gdmsetup
> I cannot find any configuration tool to set the default desktop.
> 
> Do I miss anything out? In the meantime I am even thinking of KDM having
> genetically modified itself to look exactly like GDM.
> 
> Simply: I ran out of ideas. Maybe somebody knows the little bit I am
> missing out.
> 
> Thanks
> Markus
> 
> 
> 
If you used switchdesk to choose KDE you may have to reset the KDE to GNOME in
~.Xclients and or ~.Xclients-default. I seem to remember having to do that
when I used switchdesk to KDE to reset it to start GNOME.


-- 
Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA.
registered linux user 46097