Fedora 22 - Switched to KDE on Fedora, still starts with GNOME

[bitlord]

On Sat, 30 May 2015 09:34:03 +0300
Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, all,
> 
> I had installed Fedora 22 on x86_64 machine.
> I had installed kde by "dnf install -y @kde".
> 
> I had selected kde by  swithcdesk.
> I had rebooted and still it starts in GNOME.
> 
> switchdesk from x windows shows that KDE is selected.
> 
> I made another reboot, selecting "plasma" from the scroll option
> dialog in the boot screen, still
> it logged into Gnome and not KDE.
> 
> Any ideas ? something similar to this used to work in Fedora 21, IIRC.
> 
> Regards,
> Kevin

I never used switchdesk (I guess that is what is described on the
wiki), and I never installed one desktop (image) and tried to switch to
anoter desktop.
It is weird that it doesn't start when you select it from display
manager/login manager ..., maybe there is some problem with gdm (I
guess you installed gnome image (aka workstation first)), KDE image
uses sddm, gdm should start other desktops too but possibly something
is broken, check if the sddm is installed
$ rpm -qa *sddm*  (possibly sddm, and some other sddm* package/s)
and then disable gdm
# systemctl disable gdm
and enable sddm
# systemctl enable sddm 
also you can try this from console (ctrl+alt+f[1-6] few of those should
be available)
also you can test this or start without rebooting 
# systemctl stop gdm 
and 
# systemctl start sddm


Also for KDE on Fedora specific questions you can subscribe to
'kde' [1] list. This list is OK too, but it is used for general user
discussion and possibly less people who use KDE are here, and can miss
the question/s related to it. 


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