Can't switch to KDE

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 4 17:56:19 UTC 2008


On Thursday 04 September 2008 17:19:51 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> 
wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 September 2008 14:38:12 Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >> I do a switchdesk and set KDE as the default window manager. I am told
> >> that I have to restart X to make it happen. I do that by typing:
> >> ctrl-alt-backspace (or I go to init 3 and then back to init 5).
> >
> > Which Fedora version?  Which KDE version?
> >
> >> But nothing works. Were have I gone wrong?
> >
> > Did you try a reboot?  Sometimes restarting X does fail.
> >
> > Was KDE working before this?
> >
> > Anne
>
> I can testify that switchdesk doesn't switch to either KDE or KDM in
> F9. I had to use GDM and chang ethe sessino to KDE. This was on a
> machine on which I had installed Gnome first -- I should have bugged
> it, but kinda just forgot about it.
>
I've never used switchdesk.  Does it do something spectacular?  I've always 
logged out, used the icon on the login panel to select the other session, 
then logged in again.  What extra does switchdesk give you?

Anne

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