changing from gdm to kdm. How?

oldman talbotscott at cox.net
Fri Jan 19 15:46:33 UTC 2007


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Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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
You probably want to change the redirection to >> to avoid wiping out
the Desktop specifier (assuming that you don't want to default to Gnome
so:

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

Scott
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