Ahh. OK, I'll make the change and post the results. :-[ mw -- "Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee." -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 12/06/2012 01:04 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote: > Sorry, I may have not been clear... > > You want this in /etc/sysconfig/desktop > > > DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM > > > > > Note no preceeding dollar sign :) > > > > To better understand, take a peak at /etc/X11/prefdm > > In it, its doing this: > > . /etc/sysconfig/desktop > > You'll see it doing some checks like: > > elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then > preferred=/usr/bin/kdm > > Which will be used in starting kdm :) > > > > > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Mike Watson wrote: > >> Sorry to be so slow in responding. I've done what you suggested. I created >> /etc/sysconfig/desktop >> and entered "$DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM". I rebooted but there was no change. GDM is still being used. >> >> Any other suggestions? >> >> mw >> >> >> ======================== >> Just create the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop and put in it: >> >> DESKTOP=KDM >> >> I believe it's DESKTOP - you can dbl check /etc/X11/prefdm >> >> >> Sent from my phoneMike Watson <mikew at crucis.net <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote:The last reply to this subject said to modify /etc/sysconfig/desktop to >> change GDM to KDM. This would then enable the KDE login screen instead >> of the default Gnome. >> >> However, when I checked my CentOS 6.3 system, there was no such file, no >> /etc/sysconfig/desktop. I've not been able to find any method to enable >> KDE login in 6.3. The method mentioned in the earlier reply was for >> CentOS 5, not 6. >> >> Any further suggestions? >> >> mw >> >> -- >> -- >> >> "Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee." >> -- William Kershner >> http://crucis-court.com >> http://www.crucis.net/1632search >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > Scot P. Floess RHCT (Certificate Number 605010084735240) > Chief Architect FlossWare http://sourceforge.net/projects/flossware > http://flossware.sourceforge.net > https://github.com/organizations/FlossWare > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >