Can't switch to KDE

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 16:36 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Craig White 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"
> > ----
> > I don't believe that any version of Fedora or RHEL populates a
> > file /etc/sysconfig/desktop but if present, it will be used.
> 
> My FC2 machine has it, and I didn't put it there by hand.

I'm pretty sure it used to be populated, but on F9 at least it's not
there by default. You have to create it.

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