Can't switch to KDE

[Bob Barrett]

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 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