Can't switch to KDE

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 4 21:25:58 UTC 2008


On Thursday 04 September 2008 22:05:08 Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 14:48 +0100, Anne Wilson 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 tried reboot but no go. However, using startdesk from init 3 and using
> startx resultws when I reboot, I get a different login screen with a
> session choice. I suspect I am not running kde with gnome. If I get
> tired of it I will switch back.
>
I'll try to find out which file sets the login manager, and what change needs 
to be made to it, but it will be tomorrow now

Anne

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