change desktop from GNOME to KDE

[Jim Lemon]

On 01/14/2011 09:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> ...
> 	# yum remove gdm
>
> and/or alteration of /etc/X11/prefdm
>
> Before you do that, you did do 'service stop gdm; service start kdm' or
> 'telinit 3; telinit 5', right? Logging out doesn't stop a running display
> manager. I don't think there's any way to start KDM while GDM is running
> either. Also, the theming of KDM may be making it look like GDM. I always
> modify kdmrc to use KDE's built-in default theme with clock and user list.
>
> In order to avoid menu/desktop bloat, I've done minimal initial installs (of
> F14 upgraded to Rawhide) followed by install-kde-in-parts several times in
> the past week, all successful, eventually at least.

Hi Felix,
You're right, when I logged in this evening, I got the desktop option 
and am now in KDE. Still a lot to do (no sound, probably other things), 
but I'm getting there. Thanks.

Jim