new update switches desktop to gnome

[Jerry Amundson]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>
>> Jerry Amundson wrote:
>>>
>>> How does one switch to "kdm" these days?
>>
>> Create an /etc/sysconfig/desktop file (or replace it if it already exists)
>> with the following contents:
>> DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
>> DESKTOP="KDE"
>> The first line (and yes, that's really "KDE", not "KDM") sets the display
>> manager to KDM, the second one the systemwide default desktop to KDE.
>
> I think many users are bound to try KDM instead. Perhaps the script should
> be patched to check for either.

/etc/X11/prefdm does check, and uses $DISPLAYMANAGER if set in
/etc/sysconfig/desktop.

Or, are you referring to the script used to *modify* /etc/sysconfig/desktop?
That used to be switchdesk, right? Though switchdesk switches nothing
currently, in either a system or user sense.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474861

jerry

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