fedora login window

Alain Roger raf.news at gmail.com
Wed Dec 24 12:59:30 UTC 2008


thanks a lot, it works

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:52 PM, John Austin <ja at jaa.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 11:34 +0100, Alain Roger wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>
> > wrote:
> >         John Austin wrote:
> >         > I have this in mine
> >         > Pretty sure that its not all necessary !!
> >         >
> >         > tarifa ~ 1001# cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
> >         > DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
> >
> >
> >         This sets the display manager to KDM.
> >
> >         > DESKTOP="XFCE"
> >
> >         This sets the systemwide default desktop to XFCE. (It can be
> >         overridden per
> >         user.) The original poster probably wants DESKTOP="KDE"
> >         instead.
> >
> >         > WINDOWMANAGER="XFCE"
> >         > DISPLAY="KDE"
> >
> >         I'm not sure either of those 2 are actually used, they're both
> >         not necessary
> >         in any case.
> >
> >                Kevin Kofler
> >
> >
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> > in my installation i do not have /etc/sysconfig/desktop :-(
> > how is it possible while i can switch from GNOME to KDE environment at
> > login window ?
> >
> > --
> Assuming you have KDE installed then the choice between Gnome
> and KDE will be in one of the login pull down menus
> I haven't got the Gnome Display Manager on any of my machines
> and so can't tell you exactly
>
> If you wish to set the login window to KDM then
> just create /etc/sysconfig/desktop with gedit or some other editor and
> add the single line (with a RETURN char)
>
> DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
>
>
> John
>
>
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