Switching to KDM with FC6

[Rex Dieter]

Mark Fraser wrote:

> I tried to completely move over to KDM at the weekend - I think I was just
> running KDE on top of GDM previously - by following the instructions on
> this website (http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1446).
> 
> I think I've got most of it sorted, however, I'm still showing the default
> log in screen instead of the KDE one and the Login Manager is still the
> gnome one.
> 
> Can someone assist me in the final steps?

If you're using the kde-redhat repo, make sure you have kdebase-kdm
installed.

$ yum install kdebase-kdm

Then, edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop to contain:
DESKTOP=KDE
DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE

-- Rex