Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
> 
> Took a long time to download the four CD's. But it was worth it all.
> 
> I take off my hat to Scientific Linux. I am speaking as someone who, 
> though a layman, ran Mandrake Linux for two years and Xandros for one 
> year. Those are great
> 
> Linux distros but nothing comes close to the professionalism of 
> Scientific Linux. I am honored to have been permitted to use it. Bravo!
> 
> The installation was perfect. The Anaconda Installer is excellent. I 
> chose Custom Install and added KDE, etc. Very pleased indeed!
> 
> Finally, I want to thank your team for their attention to the aesthetic 
> aspect of things. It may not seem important, but when you are booting 
> and using your computer day in and day out, you want to enjoy the 
> experience on every level, including that of design.
> 
> I am now ready to enjoy my SL system.
> 
> EXCEPT for one question: I installed KDE. It's there under Applications. 
> But how do I switch to KDE? And how do I set it as the default desktop? 
> I have looked in the Gnome menu but have not figured this out yet. Hope 
> someone can enlighten me.
> 
> Thanks so much to the SL team!
> 
> Benjamin
Hello,
Thank you for the compliment.  We do our best.
Looking at other e-mails, it looks like you have a few more questions :) 
... but that's ok.

To answer the question, there are actually three ways to change.  The 
'by hand' way, the 'redaht' way, and the normal way.

A bit of history is that RedHat loves ... really loves ... gnome. 
Although they put KDE in, they are so focused on gnome it's just sad. 
They have actually changed default gnome configurations, so on a 
standard RedHat, it's almost impossible to get KDE by default.  But we 
made some desktop tweaks to help a bit.

Normal way:  On a graphical login, just select KDE in the session menu, 
and it will ask you if you always want to login using KDE.  Note:You 
must have SL_desktop_tweaks installed for this to work, but that get's 
installed with either gnome or kde so it should be there.

RedHat way: "yum install switchdesk-gui"  Then select

By Hand Way-1: Edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop and change DESKTOP="GNOME" to 
DESKTOP="KDE"

By Hand Way-2:
   echo "exec startkde" > $HOME/.Xclients
   chmod 755 $HOME/.Xclients

Troy
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