Lost login manager

[Anne Wilson]

In a new F11 install I accidentally installed Gnome alone.  I've added KDE 
now, but can't remember exactly what I need to do to get the KDE login 
manager.  I thought it was in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, but I think I need 
two lines in there and I can only remember "DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm".  Is that 
right, and what is the second line (which I assume is the login manager line)?

Thanks

Anne

[José Abílio Matos]

On Saturday 25 July 2009 19:58:56 Anne Wilson wrote:
>  In a new F11 install I accidentally installed Gnome alone.  I've
> added KDE
>  now, but can't remember exactly what I need to do to get the KDE login
>  manager.  I thought it was in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, but I think I
>  need two lines in there and I can only remember "DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm".  Is
>  that right, and what is the second line (which I assume is the login
>  manager line)? 
It is always difficult to remember. :-)

# cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
DESKTOP=KDE
DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE

>  Thanks
>
>  Anne 
-- 
José Abílio

[Rex Dieter]

On 07/25/2009 02:18 PM, José Matos wrote:
>  On Saturday 25 July 2009 19:58:56 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > In a new F11 install I accidentally installed Gnome alone.  I've added KDE
> > now, but can't remember exactly what I need to do to get the KDE login
> > manager.  I thought it was in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, but I think I
> > need two lines in there and I can only remember "DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm".  Is
> > that right, and what is the second line (which I assume is the login
> > manager line)?
>
>  It is always difficult to remember. :-)
>
>  # cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>  DESKTOP=KDE
>  DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE 
Or
rpm -e gdm
works too.

-- Rex

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 25 July 2009 20:24:03 Rex Dieter wrote:
>  On 07/25/2009 02:18 PM, José Matos wrote:
>  > On Saturday 25 July 2009 19:58:56 Anne Wilson wrote:
>  >> In a new F11 install I accidentally installed Gnome alone.  I've added
>  >> KDE now, but can't remember exactly what I need to do to get the KDE
>  >> login manager.  I thought it was in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, but I
>  >> think I need two lines in there and I can only remember
>  >> "DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm".  Is that right, and what is the second line
> (which
>  >> I assume is the login manager line)?
>  >
>  > It is always difficult to remember. :-)
>  >
>  > # cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>  > DESKTOP=KDE
>  > DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE
>
>  Or
>  rpm -e gdm
>  works too.
>  
Guess it would - never thought of that!  Doh!

Anne

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 25 July 2009 20:18:31 José Matos wrote:
>  On Saturday 25 July 2009 19:58:56 Anne Wilson wrote:
>  > In a new F11 install I accidentally installed Gnome alone.  I've added
>  > KDE now, but can't remember exactly what I need to do to get the KDE
>  > login manager.  I thought it was in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, but I
>  > think I need two lines in there and I can only remember
>  > "DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm".  Is that right, and what is the second line (which
>  > I assume is the login manager line)?
>
>  It is always difficult to remember. :-)
>
>  # cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>  DESKTOP=KDE
>  DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE
>  
The day humans can get RAM implants I'm first in the queue ;-)

Thanks

Anne

[Dmitrij S. Kryzhevich]

>  >
>  > It is always difficult to remember. :-)
>  >
>  > # cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>  > DESKTOP=KDE
>  > DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE
>
>  The day humans can get RAM implants I'm first in the queue ;-)
>
>  Thanks
>
>  Anne 
Looking at /etc/X11/prefdm you can see that it includes /etc/sysconfig/desktop 
file and inmports the DISPLAYMANAGER var from it. It could be GNOME, KDE, WDM 
or XDM. Haven't find is anybody use DISPLAY var from this file or not at all.
-- 

Dmitrij S. Kryzhevich

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 26 July 2009 09:08:46 Dmitrij S. Kryzhevich wrote:
>  > > It is always difficult to remember. :-)
>  > >
>  > > # cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>  > > DESKTOP=KDE
>  > > DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE
>  >
>  > The day humans can get RAM implants I'm first in the queue ;-)
>  >
>  > Thanks
>  >
>  > Anne
>
>  Looking at /etc/X11/prefdm you can see that it includes
>  /etc/sysconfig/desktop file and inmports the DISPLAYMANAGER var from it. It
>  could be GNOME, KDE, WDM or XDM. Haven't find is anybody use DISPLAY var
>  from this file or not at all. 
And that would have correctly led me to /etc/sysconfig/desktop - the troubleis 
that I've not come across /etc/X11/prefdm before ;-)

Anne

[Ariel Constenla-Haile]

Hello Anne,

On Sunday 26 July 2009, 06:23, Anne Wilson wrote:
>  And that would have correctly led me to /etc/sysconfig/desktop - the
>  troubleis that I've not come across /etc/X11/prefdm before ;-) 
you could simply do it from the command line:

[root@localhost ~]# system-switch-displaymanager KDE

may be it's better to use these tools (there is also a GUI [à la Fedora == 
defaults to Gnome gtk]) than playing directly with configuration files.

Regards
-- 
Ariel Constenla-Haile
La Plata, Argentina