Can't switch to KDE

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:19 -0500, 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.

It is F9 and nothing suggested works so far. executing startkde works 

up to a point but I can't get it to execuute at login.
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