change login screen to KDE

[Jamie Bohr]

Thank you all for help.

I verified kdm is installed and even removed gdm,now
 I get a console window instead of a login screen.  I installed all the GDM
 packages I could find with yum, still no go.I had to create the
/etc/sysconfig/desktop
 file, don't think if that makes a difference

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 08:42 -0600, Jamie Bohr wrote:
> > I have googled and googled on how to make the login screen use KDE
> > rather than Gnome on Fedora 13.  Many references say to put
> > DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE in /etc/sysconfig/desktop however when I do that I
> > get a console window for the login screen.  I have even tried a
> > lowercase kde rather than an uppercase, still no good.  I have an FC12
> > install that works fine but it only has KDE installed.
>
> Since you asked for "any" help...
>
> Historical information:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/ref-guide/ch-sysconfig.html
> The /etc/sysconfig/desktop file specifies the desktop for new users and
> the display manager to be run when entering runlevel 5.
>
> Correct values are:
>
> DISPLAY=<value>, where <value> is one of the following:
>
>                GNOME — Selects the GNOME desktop environment.
>
>                KDE — Selects the KDE desktop environment.
>
> DISPLAYMANAGER=<value>, where <value> is one of the following:
>
>                GDM — Selects the GNOME display manager.
>
>                KDM — Selects the KDE display manager.
>
>                XDM — Selects the XFree86 display manager.
>
> The first two are what you get after you've logged in.  Your desktop
> being handled by Gnome or KDE, or others that aren't listed in this
> example.  The last three being the logon screen, beforehand.
>
> You can use KDM as your logon handler, and Gnome as your desktop
> handler, or other combinations.  Though, the last time I tried XDM, it
> didn't set up a few things as I logged in, so that Gnome didn't work
> properly.  Darned if I can remember what, it was a long time ago, and
> may no longer be the case, but it's somewhere on the Fedora mailing list
> archives.
>
> Installing KDM or GDM should be separate issues than installing Gnome or
> KDE.  Theoretically, one shouldn't depend on the other.  i.e. You can
> install KDM, without having to install all of KDE.
>
> --
> [tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
> 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
>
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>
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Jamie Bohr
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