On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 18:56 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 04 September 2008 17:19:51 Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 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. > > > I've never used switchdesk. Does it do something spectacular? I've always > logged out, used the icon on the login panel to select the other session, > then logged in again. What extra does switchdesk give you? > > Anne Nothing extra. It just allows you to change the default window manager. The problem with the session icon on the login panel is that I don't have one. So maybe the question is how to get it to appear. It was there in previous installations. Any ideas? -- ======================================================================= I always have fun because I'm out of my mind!!! ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
