Thank you all for help. <br><br>I verified kdm is installed and even removed gdm,now<br>
I get a console window instead of a login screen. I installed all the GDM<br>
packages I could find with yum, still no go.I had to create the /etc/sysconfig/desktop<br>
file, don't think if that makes a difference<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Tim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 08:42 -0600, Jamie Bohr wrote:<br>
> I have googled and googled on how to make the login screen use KDE<br>
> rather than Gnome on Fedora 13. Many references say to put<br>
> DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE in /etc/sysconfig/desktop however when I do that I<br>
> get a console window for the login screen. I have even tried a<br>
> lowercase kde rather than an uppercase, still no good. I have an FC12<br>
> install that works fine but it only has KDE installed.<br>
<br>
</div>Since you asked for "any" help...<br>
<br>
Historical information:<br>
<a href="http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/ref-guide/ch-sysconfig.html" target="_blank">http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/ref-guide/ch-sysconfig.html</a><br>
The /etc/sysconfig/desktop file specifies the desktop for new users and<br>
the display manager to be run when entering runlevel 5.<br>
<br>
Correct values are:<br>
<br>
DISPLAY=<value>, where <value> is one of the following:<br>
<br>
GNOME — Selects the GNOME desktop environment.<br>
<br>
KDE — Selects the KDE desktop environment.<br>
<br>
DISPLAYMANAGER=<value>, where <value> is one of the following:<br>
<br>
GDM — Selects the GNOME display manager.<br>
<br>
KDM — Selects the KDE display manager.<br>
<br>
XDM — Selects the XFree86 display manager.<br>
<br>
The first two are what you get after you've logged in. Your desktop<br>
being handled by Gnome or KDE, or others that aren't listed in this<br>
example. The last three being the logon screen, beforehand.<br>
<br>
You can use KDM as your logon handler, and Gnome as your desktop<br>
handler, or other combinations. Though, the last time I tried XDM, it<br>
didn't set up a few things as I logged in, so that Gnome didn't work<br>
properly. Darned if I can remember what, it was a long time ago, and<br>
may no longer be the case, but it's somewhere on the Fedora mailing list<br>
archives.<br>
<br>
Installing KDM or GDM should be separate issues than installing Gnome or<br>
KDE. Theoretically, one shouldn't depend on the other. i.e. You can<br>
install KDM, without having to install all of KDE.<br>
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