On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 15:07 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > 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 > You are partially right. Reread message replacing display manager by window manager. Sorry for the mistake. But you are wrong that the contents of /etc/sysconfig/desktop controls which window manager is booted when you login. Which is what I wanted to do. That does not work for anyone. look at the subject: Can't switch to KDE -- ======================================================================= Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry. ======================================================================= 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
