Can't switch to KDE

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 09:39 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 18:46 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 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.
> Not work means when I login I get GNOME not KDE.
> > 
> > > 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.
> Actually running startkde does change the display manager.

According to
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-runtime/userguide/kde-startup-sequence.html :

        "The KDE startup sequence starts with the startkde script. In
        most cases this script gets called from the display manager
        (kdm) once the user has been authenticated."

> Which is how
> switchsession is supposed to work. You just want to change the display
> manager for thew one user not the whole machine.

I think you're confused about what the display manager does. Note that
you can also run KDE under gdm, the Gnome Display Manager.

> This is
> why /etc/sysconfig/desktop is not a candidate for the job.

So how come it works for me and apparently many other people?

poc