This wasn't a new question, so I pulled this up from the archives.
Hope it helps.
Barry :-)
>From: Sridhar Dhanapalan
>Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing KDE to Gnome
>Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 22:19:51 -0800
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>How do you start X? If X automatically loads at startup, you should get a
>graphical login screen that has a drop-down menu from which you can select an
>environment. If GNOME isn't there, then it probably isn't installed (Mandrake
>GNOME should automatically put an entry there if it is installed).
>
>If X does not automatically load at bootup (i.e. you get a plain console),
>you can change what environment loads when you type startx by editing the
>.Xclients-default file in your home directory. If it doesn't exist then
>simply create a text file by that name. In that file (as in all shell
>scripts), any line beginning with a # can be ignored (they are simply
>comments). The only line that should not have a # preceding it is the one
>(there should be only one) that loads your environment. To load GNOME when
>you run startx at the console put "exec gnome-session" (without the quotes)
>in the file. For KDE, put "exec startkde", for IceWM, put "exec icewm", for
>xfce put "exec xfce", and for Sawfish put "exec sawfish". In other words,
>just put the execution file for the particular environment you want after the
>word exec.
On Thu, 11 January 2001, Greg Sarsons wrote:
>
> How do you do it if you do not have graphical user login enabled?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > If he is using the graphical user login, he can select it or any of the others
>from there.
> >
> > Barry :-)
> >
> > On Thu, 11 January 2001, "Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > My brother is using v7.2 of Mandrake, and currently it boots up into KDE. He
> > > wants to know how to switch it so that he can boot into Gnome? Thanks!
> > >
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