On the login screen there was no place as in 5.9 or older to make a choice of desktop environment. I changed DESKTOP="KDE" DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" and it has no effect; GNOME hang on there. So because of a lot of flaws in my installation and of lack of time I decide to go back to 5.9 and get a look later for a 6.4 installation. --- Michel Donais ----- Original > Michel, are you trying to change your window manager (gdm vs kdm) or > your desktop (gnome vs kde)? > > If you are trying to change your desktop, then Craig's suggestion would > work, though keep in mind that the "session" section of the gdm window > manager is on the password screen, i.e. you enter your username and then > you have the option to change your desktop on the next screen. Like Mark > said, they don't make it easy, meh! > > If you are trying to change the window manager itself, as in have kdm > handle the login screen rather than gdm, then you would need to create > the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop and put these two lines in that file: > > DESKTOP="KDE" > DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" > > then reboot the machine and it should come back up with the kdm console > screen (and the system default desktop set to kde). Keep in mind that > you may need to explicitly install the yum group KDE-Desktop in order to > set the window manager to kdm. Depending on which type of os install you > did, that group doesn't get installed. For example, for my workstations > we generally use the install choice Software Development Workstation, > and we need to do a yum-install of the group after the os installation > is finished (since we don't bother with the customization stuff until > post-install). > > Hope this helps! > Miranda > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >