Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On Fri, March 11, 2016 10:46 am, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Richard wrote: >>>> Date: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:33:57 -0500 >>>> From: m.roth at 5-cent.us >>>> >>>> So, now that I've gotten that out, the KDE display manager, on the >>>> login screen, easily lets you choose window managers. Gnome utterly >>>> refuses to consider such an idea. >>>> >>>> I've just yum groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces" on one of my >>>> user's new system... and I cannot figure out, not in googling, and >>>> there's nothing vaguely obvious anywhere, how to change to KDE from >>>> gnome. >>> >>> With gnome there is a "gear wheel" on the password entry page -- on >>> the right below the password box, next to the "sign in" label. If I >>> select it I can switch between gnome and mate. Does KDE show there as >>> an option? >> >> Fascinating. Not in ours. It displays our issue, and in the upper left, >> some icons that let you deal with sound, I think, connection, maybe, and >> I forget what else. > > In my case the gear which when clicked of gives you drop down choices of > Desktop Environments (DE) installed appears only after I click on > particular user. In other words, when user has password field, he also has > a gear to click on to choose DE. > > I hope, this helps. Ah, that was it, it's not on the screen where you put in your username, it's on the password screen. On the other hand, the easier solution was to just create /etc/sysconfig/desktop, which did not exist, and add the two lines to it. Thanks, folks. mark