change login screen to KDE

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On 09/22/2010 04:37 PM, Jamie Bohr wrote:
> Thank you all for help. 
> 
> I verified kdm is installed and even removed gdm,now
>  I get a console window instead of a login screen.  I installed all the GDM
>  packages I could find with yum, still no go.I had to create the
> /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>  file, don't think if that makes a difference
> 
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
> <mailto:ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>> wrote:
> 
>     On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 08:42 -0600, Jamie Bohr wrote:
>     > I have googled and googled on how to make the login screen use KDE
>     > rather than Gnome on Fedora 13.  Many references say to put
>     > DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE in /etc/sysconfig/desktop however when I do that I
>     > get a console window for the login screen.  I have even tried a
>     > lowercase kde rather than an uppercase, still no good.  I have an FC12
>     > install that works fine but it only has KDE installed.
> 
>     Since you asked for "any" help...
> 
>     Historical information:
>     http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/ref-guide/ch-sysconfig.html
>     The /etc/sysconfig/desktop file specifies the desktop for new users and
>     the display manager to be run when entering runlevel 5.
> 
>     Correct values are:
> 
>     DISPLAY=<value>, where <value> is one of the following:
> 
>                    GNOME — Selects the GNOME desktop environment.
> 
>                    KDE — Selects the KDE desktop environment.
> 
>     DISPLAYMANAGER=<value>, where <value> is one of the following:
> 
>                    GDM — Selects the GNOME display manager.
> 
>                    KDM — Selects the KDE display manager.
> 
>                    XDM — Selects the XFree86 display manager.
> 
>     The first two are what you get after you've logged in.  Your desktop
>     being handled by Gnome or KDE, or others that aren't listed in this
>     example.  The last three being the logon screen, beforehand.
> 
>     You can use KDM as your logon handler, and Gnome as your desktop
>     handler, or other combinations.  Though, the last time I tried XDM, it
>     didn't set up a few things as I logged in, so that Gnome didn't work
>     properly.  Darned if I can remember what, it was a long time ago, and
>     may no longer be the case, but it's somewhere on the Fedora mailing list
>     archives.
> 
>     Installing KDM or GDM should be separate issues than installing Gnome or
>     KDE.  Theoretically, one shouldn't depend on the other.  i.e. You can
>     install KDM, without having to install all of KDE.
> 
>     --
>     [tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
>     2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
> 
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>     read messages from the public lists.
> 
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> 
> -- 
> Jamie Bohr
> 

Based on my experience of just trying the supposedly correct values
above, they did not work for Fedora 13. Whereas the following does work
even if gdm and kdm are installed.

DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE

The only other possibility for this not working is the grub
configuration vga setting. The easiest way to change this is using the
boot configuration utility system-config-boot from yum. From here you
can setup the graphics resolution used during boot. My suspicion being
that the KDE login configuration requires this to work.

HTH

cpp4ever