Re: Can't switch to KDE

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On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 12:35 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 08:23 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > Look, we have been at this too long.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> > switchdesk changes the
> > file .Xclient-defaults but that file is not sourced on my machine. If
> > you know how to get it sourced when you login I will be glad to learn
> > something new.
> 
> And I've been trying to explain that I don't use switchdesk because I
> get the right result by editing /etc/sysconfig/desktop, which for some
> reason isn't working for you.
> 
> I suspect that if you find out why switchdesk doesn't work for you, you
> will also find out why my method doesn't work for you. The answer may be
> to do with your X setup, not with switchdesk or /etc/sysconfig/desktop.
> 
> This is what is supposed to happen on F9 (note that this has changed a
> bit since F8):
> 
> Boot goes to state 5
> ... which runs /etc/event.d/prefdm
> ... which runs /etc/X11/prefdm
> ... which consults /etc/sysconfig.desktop if present, and sets the
> desktop manager
> ... and then executes it.
> The desktop manager runs the login session
> ... then runs X as a child
> 
> You might want to look at /var/log/messages to see what is actually
> happening.
> 
> poc
> 
You boot process stops to soon. Once you are in a login session we still
have the question of what window manager is launched when you login.
What do you think controls that?
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