[CentOS] KDE login screen configuration problems

Fri Dec 7 17:08:54 UTC 2012
Scot P. Floess <sfloess at nc.rr.com>

Great!  Yeah, tbh - I had that issue some time ago as well ;)  Took me a 
little time to figure it out :)

On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Mike Watson wrote:

> Thank you. That worked.
>
> mw
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> On 12/06/2012 02:52 PM, Mike Watson wrote:
>> Ahh. OK, I'll make the change and post the results.  :-[
>>
>> mw
>>
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>> "Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee."
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>>
>> 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
>>>>
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