On Thursday 02 December 2004 02:34 pm, Arturo wrote: > Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote: > >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=20120 > >>1& 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 > > Honestly I wasn't tring to make this into an issue, cause I got it to > work with a little help from LQ.org.....but Ithe point I was tring to > brign forward is, maybe Fedora could pay a little more attention to KDE > users. I could be wrong here becuase this happened since the beginning > of FC2, but I did everything the tutorial I was flowing stated, to no > avail. A little radiobutton in Anaconda to select primary desktop would > be much apperiated. > > Peace Hello Arturo, I certainly agree with you. It would be nice if the developers at Fedora Core could pay more attention to KDE within the distribution, especially at startup. I have used KDE since I started using Linux and wouldn't use anything else. Jeff -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
