switching between gdm and kdm ?

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Sun Apr 9 19:03:55 UTC 2006


On 4/9/06, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Whats the recommended way to switch to KDM in FC5 ?
>
> In previous FC releases, I would just edit the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop so
> it used KDE i.e.
>
> DESKTOP="KDE"
> DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
>
> However, with FC5 this file is empty, whereas in previous FC versions I have
> used it contained GNOME/GDM entries.
>
> Changing this file seems to work, but as it was emtpy it makes me wonder if it
> is the still the best/only way to make this change ?
>
> Chris
>

The file is empty because the default has always been GDM.




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