Re: Can't switch to KDE

[Bob Barrett <bobbrrtt earthlink net>]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson 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 always boot to runlevel 3 and have had no trouble using switchdesk
in F9. I run switchdesk in an xterm, then logout of X and restart with
startx. Always works.

Bob