Can't switch to KDE

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 18:56 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 04 September 2008 17:19:51 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> 
> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 04 September 2008 14:38:12 Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > >> I do a switchdesk and set KDE as the default window manager. I am told
> > >> that I have to restart X to make it happen. I do that by typing:
> > >> ctrl-alt-backspace (or I go to init 3 and then back to init 5).
> > >
> > > Which Fedora version?  Which KDE version?
> > >
> > >> But nothing works. Were have I gone wrong?
> > >
> > > Did you try a reboot?  Sometimes restarting X does fail.
> > >
> > > Was KDE working before this?
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > I can testify that switchdesk doesn't switch to either KDE or KDM in
> > F9. I had to use GDM and chang ethe sessino to KDE. This was on a
> > machine on which I had installed Gnome first -- I should have bugged
> > it, but kinda just forgot about it.
> >
> I've never used switchdesk.  Does it do something spectacular?  I've always 
> logged out, used the icon on the login panel to select the other session, 
> then logged in again.  What extra does switchdesk give you?
> 
> Anne
Nothing extra. It just allows you to change the default window manager.
The problem with the session icon on the login panel is that I don't
have one. So maybe the question is how to get it to appear. It was there
in previous installations. Any ideas?
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