Re: post install fedora core won't switch to kde....

["sol dynco" <soldynco lycos com>]

Thanks Rick, 
    Yes, I should have mentioned that I SEVERAL times sought to assign kde as the default desktop prior to login, as you sugggested, ("session"), but to no avail.  I have undoubtedly screwed up the capability to switch by disabling gnome during the install. 
    This problem has probably never before arisen, because I guess most folks using RedHat/Fedora prefer USA gnome rather than European KDE.  I figure, Linux is coming from Europe, not USA, so I prefer to stick with kde.  Maybe a different distro implements things differently.  I will try a couple of others, Debian and Mandrake this weekend, to see if I can improve my luck.   Regards, Sol

--------- Original Message ---------

DATE: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:14:29
From: Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Cc: 

>sol dynco wrote:
>> I just completed successfully the install of fedora 
>> core, but I am unable to switch to kde as default 
>> desktop.  I followed the instructions to use the 
>> System-->desk switcher routine, which advises that although the desktop default has been altered, no action will be taken until reboot, but when I reboot, the same redhat icons appear, not the kde desktop.  
>> Similarly, I am unable to remove the password requirement, though I adjusted the settings as root, not as user.  Perhaps the problem lies with my 
>> installation, since I deselected 100% of the gnome 
>> software, or thought I did, until I sought to configure my usb printer, when, as if by magic, the GNOME!!!! printer installation program appeared, so obviously I have been unsuccessful in eliminating the odius gnome. Everything WORKS fine--sound card, printer, and ethernet, but Fedora, at least as I installed it, with gnome ostensibly eliminated, will neither permit me to configure the desktop as I wish nor offer ingress and egress gracefully as I desire.  Perhaps I need to reinstall the whole operating system, and only remove gnome AFTER I have begged redhat to allow me to configure my computer the way I want?  Why is it called fedora, it seems to me to be identical to my redhat 9.0, apart from a screen showing the word fedora for an unpleasantly long duration?  One of my (many) error messages even stated explicitly:  "red hat 9.0". regards, Sol
>
>When you log in again, try clicking the "session" icon at the bottom of
>the screen and select KDE BEFORE you enter your password and hit ENTER.
>You should come up in KDE.
>
>Keep in mind that many of the tweak tools default to their Gnome-based
>forms.  They will work even on the KDE desktop.  You have to use the
>KDE-based tweak tool specifically unless you edit the kapok out of the
>default menus.
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>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens vitalstream com -
>- VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
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