On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Devin Reade gdr@gno.org wrote:
Jeremy Sanders jeremy@jeremysanders.net wrote:
Assuming it is the same as fedora, put the lines
DESKTOP="KDE" DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
in /etc/sysconfig/desktop to change it for all users.
IIRC, setting DESKTOP there only has an effect for new users; after someone has already logged in once then I think their default is set in some other state file in their home directory. I'm afraid I don't remember the details on that, though.
The display manager is the same for all users. As for the desktop, AFAIK it is controlled by the ~/.dmrc file, per user. For example, I have the following:
$ cat ~/.dmrc
[Desktop] Session=kde Language=en_US.utf8 Layout=us
If there is no .dmrc file in the user's home directory, the setting from /etc/sysconfig/desktop is used as a default.
HTH, :-) Marko