Re: Choosing the Desktop - how?

From: Dave Brown (dhbrown_at_hobbes.dhbrown.net)
Date: 10/09/03 

Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:12:57 GMT

In article <3F84AE29.6060202@sonic.net>, Alan Silverman wrote:
> Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
>> I'm stumped on what should be a simple task. I want to choose my
>> Desktop (Gnome, KDE, etc). Now, in the past I've simply bypassed all the
>> Fancy GUI Configuration and put "exec gdm" in xinitrc, but I'd like to do
>> it "right" for a change.
>>
>> It looks like I need to set DESKTOP and/or DISPLAYMANAGER, but where?
>> How?
>
> I switched GNOME (the default) to KDE using
>
> $ switchdesk kde

It kinda depends on which distribution you're using. I think RH has
'switchdesk' to change the default desktop. But don't confuse the
"display manager" with the "desktop".

The display manager is what provides a graphical login screen. Commonly
used display managers are gdm (Gnome) and kdm (KDE). If using a display
manager, you have a means to choose which desktop you want to start up.
With RH, it's the "Session" choice. Selecting a desktop from that popup
will give you a choice of making it your default.

But choosing a "desktop" is not going to change the display manager. 

-- 
Dave Brown  Austin, TX

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