Switching desktops

Wolfgang wolfgang at rpi.net.au
Wed May 28 13:10:35 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 08:24 -0400, William Howard wrote:
> On May 27, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Mark Haney wrote:
> 
> >> Greetings!
> >> I haven't been able to figure out how to use the KDE desktop  
> >> instead of Gnome in version 9. I had the updater grab all the 4.04  
> >> files, but I how do I get it to switch?
> >> Chris Howard
> >
> > You should be able to change the session from the login screen.  Or,  
> > if that's not there, from the CLI use 'switchdesk kde'. That should  
> > do it.
> 
> You could change it with Fedora 8, but the login screen doesn't give  
> the option in 9... I tried the command but the system doesn't  
> recognize it (if I'm doing it right)... I've been through all the  
> documentation I could find...
> 
> A little more help?
> 
> WCH
> 

Switchdesk is not installed by default, you will have to do a 'yum
install switchdesk' from CLI first. Then run the above command.

Wolf





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