On 09/06/2011 02:05 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
> On 09/06/2011 10:48 AM, Jeff Siddall wrote:
>> I have ~/.Xclient set to start KDE (courtesy of the old switchdesk
>> script from EL5 which seems to be missing in EL6) and
>> /etc/sysconfig/desktop contains DESKTOP="KDE" and DISPLAYMANAGER="KDM"
>> and yet still GDM continues to run and login to Gnome by default.
>>
>> What do I have to do to get KDE?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> You may find this bug I posted on "switchdesk" interesting:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658247
>
> I posted a work around on the bug:
> use the "session" at the bottom of the greater screen
>
> Worked for me to default to Xfce.
>
> -T

Thanks for the tip.  That got me reading, and eventually I found in the 
GDM docs where it talks about .dmrc:

"Normally GDM will write this file when the user logs in for the first 
time, and rewrite it if the user chooses to change their default values 
on a subsequent login."

Great.  So I looked and sure enough I had a ~/.dmrc file which contained:

[Desktop]
Session=kde
Language=en_US.utf8
Layout=us

So why does GDM still default to Gnome?  Grrr...  So I am fed up with 
GDM.  Any ideas how I ditch GDM and switch to KDM?

Jeff