[CentOS] Centos 6: howto install and run KDE

Thu Aug 25 18:49:31 UTC 2011
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Michael D. Berger wrote:
> On my laptop, I have not been able to get KDE to run; I
> always get gnome.  I installed selecting KDE, and I tried
> yum groupinstall, which appeared to work, but I still get
> gnome running.  BTW, I boot to level 3, and run startx.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.

KDE has an easy option to change window managers. Gnome is doing their
best to prevent you from doing so.

yum -y remove gnome\* gdm\*

      mark