changing from gdm to kdm. How?

Kurt Wall kwall at kurtwerks.com
Fri Jan 19 13:53:10 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 07:07:38AM -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Rob wrote:
> >Anne Wilson wrote:
> >
> >Can you tell me what is the preferred Fedora-method
> >to switch from gdm to kdm?
> >
> >I'm using FC6.
> >
> >Rob.
> >
> 
> I would remove gdm which if installed would default to kdm. The proper 
> way would be to change an entry in some file which specifies which 
> manager to use. It was discussed awhile back but I cannot recall where 
> this file is located.

Don't know if this is the "preferred" method, but it has the desired
effect (see /etc/X11/prefdm for the gory details):

cat "DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE" > /etc/sysconfig/desktop

Kurt
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