Default Desktop Manager

[Rex Dieter]

Kevin Connolly wrote:
> In the older versions of RH there was an option to switch the default desktop manager and it would save that particular preference by user.
> I just, as of yesterday, brought up FC3 coming from rH7.3 with KDE as the choice manager (and no Gnome). Currently, the system is pointed to another rudimentary manager as default. Any way to change this through a conf. file anf if so which one?.....better yet if there's a place to point and click to

It's controlled via /etc/sysconfig/desktop

To make KDE the default desktop environment, set
DESKTOP=KDE

To use KDE's kdm loginmanager, instead of gdm, set
DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE

Then either drop to runlevel 3 and back to 5 or reboot (simply 
restarting X isn't enough).

-- Rex