Can't switch to KDE

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 15:47 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 14:22 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 20:35 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > > Can't one just edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop ,
> > > or doesn't that work any more?
> > 
> > It does work and has been mentioned here several times in the past. Note
> > that F9 doesn't seem to include the file by default so you have to
> > create it, and of course know what to put in it. For KDE:
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > DESKTOP="KDE"
> > DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
> > 
> > poc
> > 
> That does not work on my machine.

What does "not work" mean? What exactly happens? Have you restarted X
after makimg the above changes? It's not enough just to log out and in
again since you want to change the display manager (not just the window
manager). "init 3 && init 5" from a console should do the trick.

> What do you think of .Xclient-default?

You mean .Xclients-default? It just seems to execute startkde on my
system. That won't change the display manager either.

Silly question: you *have* installed KDE Desktop, right?

poc