Can't switch to KDE

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 13:53 -0700, Aldo Foot wrote:
> What I understand is that when initdefault is set to 5, there are
> three components
> that launch in this order:
> (1) a Display Manager (GDM)
> (2) an X Server
> (3) a Desktop Manager (GNOME, KDE)
> 
> gdm is simply a GUI where one can enter the user/pasword and choose a
> Desktop Manager. Once you hit enter GDM, will launch X, which will
> serve GNOME/KDE.

kdm does the same thing.

Also, it's useful to note that the Desktop Manager is what launches the
X server (you can verify this by checking that /usr/bin/X is a child
of /usr/bin/kdm).

poc