Yeah, that little shortcut wouldn't work for me either. There is a file called /etc/X11/prefdm in which you can switch the preference order of kdm and gdm. It might work tho I don't know for sure cause I switched to booting to console then startx. But I've heard it does. -s On Wednesday 22 August 2001 06:53 pm, you wrote: > Hi Dave and all, > I tried changing /etc/sysconfig/desktop to {GNOME, Gnome, gnome} and > rebooted each time, but each time it still comes back with kdm! Is it > possible that this file is not being read? or is there something I need to > do to activate it? > > Thank you > fearless1 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:55:34 -0500 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] kdm not starting KDE > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 22 August 2001 04:47 pm, thus spake Doug X: > > > Hello LM users, > > > > I just upgraded to XFree86 4.1.0 and got X to finally restart. > > Then I upgraded to Texstar's kde2.2 rpm's. > > > > My problem is this. > > kdm won't start KDE, it always starts icewm. Any ideas or solutions > > as to how I can fix kdm to start KDE. To note: I can log in via init 3 > > and startx will properly load KDE. Also from init 3 I can run as root > > xdm or gdm from command line and both will start KDE properly, however I > > don't know how to get gdm or xdm to start by default on init 5? I have > > tried the gdm configurator but on a reboot kdm returns. > > Hello Doug, > > You need to edit the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop, and change the entry > from KDE to GNOME. This will then start gdm instead of kdm. > > Dave > - -- > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Visit http://www.visto.com. > Find out how companies are linking mobile users to the > enterprise with Visto.
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