Setting KDE default desktop
Stephen Liu
satimis at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 27 07:44:30 UTC 2004
Hi Andrey,
Noted with thanks
B.R.
Stephen
> Stephen Liu wrote:
> > Hi Andrey,
> >
> > Tks for your advice.
> >
> > Previously I was confused by this command
> "switchdesk
> > KDE" To change user's desktop I must login as
> "user",
> > and then starting user's terminal to execute this
> > command, not login as "root" after starting the
> > terminal.
>
> Desktop Environments are controlled per user.
> Whoever runs switchdesk,
> gets a new default environment. Makes sense if
> there's a few people
> using the same machine. :)
>
> switchdesk is a small script that basically edits
>
> /home/someuser/.Xclients-default
>
> which tells X what to do when it starts up.
>
> >>FC usually points this out when you switch the DE
> >>manualy.
> >
> >
> > What did you mean "switch the DE manually"?
>
> When logging on in GDM (your default graphical login
> manager which comes
> up when you start up), you can control which DE
> (desktop environment)
> you would like to use for the next session by
> clicking on the Session
> "button" at the bottom of the screen. When I did
> that some time ago, I
> remember getting a message window, telling me how to
> use switchdesk.
> That's all I meant. :)
>
> Greets,
>
> //Andro
>
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> Andrey Andreev
> University of Helsinki
> Dept. of Computer Science
>
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