[CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

Wed Sep 7 18:45:30 UTC 2011
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Scot P. Floess wrote:
>
> Sorry for .xsession, I mean when you are in runlevel 3 and type startx...
> However, in looking at my home directory, I see I have .xsession
> symbolically linked to .xinitrc
>
> I think you want a ~/.xinitrc that looks like what I described for
> .xsession
>
> I just did some googling - I couldn't remember the name of an app to
> switch the desktops...  Try yum installing switchdesk and switchdesk-gui
>
> I believe those will change your desktop for you (the default one)...
>
Yeah, there *used* to be an app called switchdesk. Not in 6, apparently. I
just tried yum install \*switchdesk\*, and for some reason, it wanted to
install man-pages-fr; no switchdesk.

       mark