Also make sure installed all KDE stuff... yum groupinstall -y base-x kde-desktop
Then, make sure in your /etc/sysconfig/desktop you have this: DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE That's all I am doing and KDE runs great for me on CentOS 5.x and/or 6.x HTH, Flossy On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Michel Donais wrote: > On the login screen there was no place as in 5.9 or older to make a choice > of desktop environment. > I changed > DESKTOP="KDE" > DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" > and it has no effect; GNOME hang on there. > > So because of a lot of flaws in my installation and of lack of time I decide > to go back to 5.9 and get a look later for a 6.4 installation. > > > --- > Michel Donais > > ----- Original > Michel, are you trying to change your window manager (gdm > vs kdm) or >> your desktop (gnome vs kde)? >> >> If you are trying to change your desktop, then Craig's suggestion would >> work, though keep in mind that the "session" section of the gdm window >> manager is on the password screen, i.e. you enter your username and then >> you have the option to change your desktop on the next screen. Like Mark >> said, they don't make it easy, meh! >> >> If you are trying to change the window manager itself, as in have kdm >> handle the login screen rather than gdm, then you would need to create >> the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop and put these two lines in that file: >> >> DESKTOP="KDE" >> DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" >> >> then reboot the machine and it should come back up with the kdm console >> screen (and the system default desktop set to kde). Keep in mind that >> you may need to explicitly install the yum group KDE-Desktop in order to >> set the window manager to kdm. Depending on which type of os install you >> did, that group doesn't get installed. For example, for my workstations >> we generally use the install choice Software Development Workstation, >> and we need to do a yum-install of the group after the os installation >> is finished (since we don't bother with the customization stuff until >> post-install). >> >> Hope this helps! >> Miranda >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS@centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Scot P. Floess RHCT (Certificate Number 605010084735240) Chief Architect FlossWare http://sourceforge.net/projects/flossware http://flossware.sourceforge.net https://github.com/organizations/FlossWare _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos