[Fedora 23] Installing KDE Plasma as a second Desktop Environment! [bug]

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Nov 24 00:07:00 UTC 2015


On Mon, 2015-11-23 at 19:23 +0000, Andrew R Paterson wrote:
> I must be missing the point here, but I have always found that after 
> installing multiple desktops and leaving gdm as the login manager,
> when you 
> are asked for the password on login there is a little gear cog icon
> which if 
> you click on brings up a menu of the different desktops you have
> installed - 
> for instance I have CDE, GNOME, KDE ..... 

You're confusing Desktop Environment (DE) with Desktop Manager (DM).
The DM handles the graphical login and other session stuff, including
allowing you to select your DE, but the various DMs (gdm, kdm, sddm,
...) have slightly different capabilities.

poc


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