Thank you. That worked.
mw
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On 12/06/2012 02:52 PM, Mike Watson wrote:
> Ahh. OK, I'll make the change and post the results. :-[
>
> mw
>
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>
> "Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee."
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>
>
> On 12/06/2012 01:04 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote:
>> Sorry, I may have not been clear...
>>
>> You want this in /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>>
>>
>> DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Note no preceeding dollar sign :)
>>
>>
>>
>> To better understand, take a peak at /etc/X11/prefdm
>>
>> In it, its doing this:
>>
>> . /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>>
>> You'll see it doing some checks like:
>>
>> elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then
>> preferred=/usr/bin/kdm
>>
>> Which will be used in starting kdm :)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Mike Watson wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry to be so slow in responding. I've done what you suggested. I created
>>> /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>>> and entered "$DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM". I rebooted but there was no change. GDM is still being used.
>>>
>>> Any other suggestions?
>>>
>>> mw
>>>
>>>
>>> ========================
>>> Just create the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop and put in it:
>>>
>>> DESKTOP=KDM
>>>
>>> I believe it's DESKTOP - you can dbl check /etc/X11/prefdm
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my phoneMike Watson <mikew at crucis.net <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote:The last reply to this subject said to modify /etc/sysconfig/desktop to
>>> change GDM to KDM. This would then enable the KDE login screen instead
>>> of the default Gnome.
>>>
>>> However, when I checked my CentOS 6.3 system, there was no such file, no
>>> /etc/sysconfig/desktop. I've not been able to find any method to enable
>>> KDE login in 6.3. The method mentioned in the earlier reply was for
>>> CentOS 5, not 6.
>>>
>>> Any further suggestions?
>>>
>>> mw
>>>
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