change login screen to KDE

Jonathan Beatty jonathan.beatty at gallaudet.edu
Wed Sep 22 19:09:57 UTC 2010


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On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:37:20 -0600
Jamie Bohr <jamiebohr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.  I
> > read messages from the public lists.
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Jamie Bohr


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