Can't switch to KDE

[Aldo Foot]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I do a switchdesk and set KDE as the default window manager. I am told
> that I have to restart X to make it happen. I do that by typing:
> ctrl-alt-backspace (or I go to init 3 and then back to init 5).
>
> But nothing works. Were have I gone wrong?
> --


In /etc/X11/prefdm edit your preferred desktop manager:

Normally you log out of your GUI session to go to a CLI and then do the
switchdesk command, then startx. You can also use startkde. I never
had to restart X after using switchdesk.

try doing a clean reboot.
~af