On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:13 am, Arturo wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: > > Arturo wrote: > >> switching from GDM to KDM, I basically had to hack (using the term > >> loosely) /etc/X11/prefdm script to get it to work. > > > > adding > > DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" > > to > > /etc/sysconfig/desktop > > is a little easier. > > > > -- Rex > > I'm not sure if you've actually tried this, but it doesn't work. And > reviewing the prefdm , I can't seehow it's suppose to work at all. And > I'm not the only who this did not work for. Obviously I may easily be an > isolated information. Here's a link to a thread I had started on the > issue: > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=201201&h >ighlight=prefdm > <http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=201201& >highlight=prefdm> > > Peace Hello, In fact, if you are trying to obtain the KDE desktop upon bootup instead of getting the Bluecurve desktop by default, all you need to do is go to /etc/sysconfig/desktop and where it says "Gnome" , change it to "KDE". You need root priviledges, though. Jeff -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list