changing from gdm to kdm. How?

Jack Byers byersj at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 20 18:51:20 UTC 2007



Jack Byers     byersj at hotmail.com
man  switchdesk


SWITCHDESK(1)                                                    
SWITCHDESK(1)

NAME
       switchdesk  -  graphical  and  text mode interface for choosing 
desktop
       environment

SYNOPSIS
       switchdesk [desktop name]

DESCRIPTION
       switchdesk provides a simple method of  choosing  between  the  
various
       desktop  environments  available  under Red Hat Linux, including 
GNOME,
       KDE, and FVWM2.  If X Windows is running, switchdesk will  bring  up  
a
       dialog  box which allows the user to choose between the available 
desk-
       tops installed on the system.  This dialog follows  the  appearance  
of
       the  user��  current  desktop as closely as possible. 
If a desktop name
       (KDE, GNOME, XFce4, FVWM, WINDOWMAKER) is supplied as an argument, or 
X
       is not running, switchdesk can be used from the command line.

RETURN CODES
       switchdesk returns 0 on success, 1 on error.

FILES
:
~/.Xclients, ~/.Xclients-default
                           Stores the currently selected desktop.


I have nothing in  etc/sysconfig/desktop

last august i ran
as user byers    switchdesk KDE
gave me funny msg re dbus  missing?, but it did finish and said kde now 
running
logged out and back in and came up in what looks like kde start

-rwxr-xr-x  1 byers byers   189 Aug 22 20:47 .Xclients
-rwxr-xr-x  1 byers byers   189 Aug 22 20:47 .Xclients-default

[byers at bootp ~]$ less .Xclients-default
#! /bin/bash
# Created by Red Hat Desktop Switcher

WM="startkde"
WMPATH="/usr/bin /opt/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin"

for p in $WMPATH ; do
        [ -x $p/$WM ] && exec $p/$WM
done

exit 1
..Xclients-default (END)
[byers at bootp ~]$

i have been using kde since then

Jack

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