Switchdesk in FC5 ? -

Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at officeonweb.net
Mon Mar 27 12:50:20 UTC 2006


Timothy Murphy wrote:

>Bob Goodwin wrote:
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>>>Switchdesk is not installed by default. Try "yum install switchdesk"
>>>followed by "yum install "switchdesk-gui" at the command-line.
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>>>
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>>It is installed now, I got it from the RPM's on the FC5 DVD.
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>>It did not occur to me that it would be an RPM.
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>As a matter of interest,
>one can do it directly by editing /etc/sysconfig/desktop .
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Yes, interesting, but on this computer which uses XFCE [changed using 
switchdesk]
I see the following?

cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
 >> DESKTOP="GNOME"
 >> DISPLAYMANAGER="GNOME"
 >> EOF

Perhaps >> denotes comment?

I installed Gnome and KDE but normally use neither ...

Bob





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