Can't start gdm

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sun Dec 25 04:20:50 UTC 2011


On 12/25/2011 10:31 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 12/24/2011 06:22 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
>> "KDE" is correct.  My system has:
>>
>> % cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>> DESKTOP="KDE"
>> DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
>>
>> A quick look at /etc/X11/prefdm verifies that's correct too.
>
> Thanx.  A quick check with yum revealed that I don't actually have kdm
> installed, although I though I'd installed it.  Still, if I've
> actually fixed what was wrong with gdm, it won't matter.


FWIW, I find it easier to simply run "system-switch-displaymanager kdm"
from the command line.


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