Switching default window manager [solved]

[Sherpa]

I want to switch my defaut window manager to kde however i have not been able to. On the suggestion of cybrjackle i have tried to run the command switchdesk kde, as both my user and root, neither switched the default manager to kde. secondly i edited the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop to say DESKTOP="KDE" instead of DESKTOP="GNOME", yet i still have the problem.... right now the default windows manager is a WM called "Default windows manager" or so i think... please help!

[bvc]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_...in%C2%A0results

http://www.plig.org/xwinman/basics.html

"Look at the system file and see where it calls the default window manager."

 

how do you get to X?

[Sherpa]

it init 5 by default and goes to gdm ( i think that is what it is called) i have seen some things suggested about switching this thing to kdm....

[Sherpa]

DefaultSession=default.desktop

this is what i found in the /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf file so i went looking for that file and it is in

file:/usr/share/gdm/BuiltInSessions/

now the thing is, is that it is some type a script file...

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
# The names/descriptions should really be better
Name=Default System Session
Name[af]=Verstekstelselsessie
Name[ar]=جلسة النظام الافتراضية
Name[az]=Ön Qurğulu Sistem İclası
Name[be]=Дапомная сыстэмная сэсыя
Name[bg]=Системна сесия по подразбиране
....
Comment[vi]=Đây là phiên làm việc hệ thống mặc định
Comment[wa]=Çouci est li prémetowe session do sistinme, po s' elodjî tot-z eployant li lingaedje defini dins les prémetowès valixhances do sistinme
Comment[zh_CN]=系统默认的会话
Comment[zh_TW]=使用系統預設的作業階段
Exec=default
# The "default" Exec is a very special one and is handled specially in
# the Xsession script, you could also have "custom" which would just run
# "~/.xsession" directly
Icon=
Type=Application

that is what it looks like mostly i cut alot of it out... but i dont see that it has anything to do with what WM is default...

for right now i am going to switch the value to kde and see how it goes...

[Sherpa]

now when i test the default log in, it tells me that GNOME is not installed and that it is switching to a fail safe terminal.... Why did they not just leave the little "set this as default session type" check box?

 

 

The Default is now KDE and when i select default from the sessions menue, KDE comes up, but now the problem is that the system is not automatically loading the default session.... ERRRRRRR

Edited February 15, 2005 by Sherpa

[Sherpa]

Finally fixed it!!!!! :D

 

i hacked my gdm.conf file to say DefaultSession=kde.desktop

 

then i made a sym link from /usr/share/xsessions/kde.desktop to /usr/share/gdm/BuiltInSessions/

 

finally it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jlc]

Did you try:

 

switchdesk kde

 

Like I sent in the PM when you asked me? Did that not work?

[Sherpa]

yes, i did try that and it did not work.... i then tried downloading a GUI front end for switchdesk called: switchdesk, and according to it i had my default set as kde, but whenever i started up, i still had to select KDE, but now it works fine since i made that switch