On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Devin Reade <gdr at gno.org> wrote: > Jeremy Sanders <jeremy at 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