Problems with the Display Manager

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 08:13 -0800, abc xyz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed Fedora 3 on a clean disk the other day
> and I have two problems:
> 
> I changed the default runlevel from 3 to 5 and the
> thing defaults to Gnome. I want it to default to KDE
> but I can't find a way to do it. Each time I login in
> I have to explicitly set the seesion to KDE and this
> is very annoying. Any input?
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start (red fedora) -> System Tools -> Terminal
$ switchdesk

make yourself happy
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> 
> The second problem has to do with the display manager.
> I tried to install some software yesterday, the
> installation failed with the error message:
> "Wind/U x-toolkit Error: wuDisplay: Can't open
> display."
> echo $DISPLAY returns :0.0. xhost + doesn't solve the
> problem. Setting the DISPLAY variable to another value
> prevents me from logging in.
> I strongly suspect this has to do with the display
> manager. "ps -ef | grep dm" returns gdm-binary.
> Whatever I do I cannot change this manager to another
> one. And, I cannot find the KDE display manager, kdm.
> I need to solve this problem to install my software.
> I found out that Wind/U is some proprietary software
> similar to "wine". I contacted the company that makes
> it in CT, I don't think they will respond.
> 
> I thank you for any input!! A good day to everyone!!
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I don't know for sure but I think that the above switch to kde will
change your 'prefdm' from gdm to kdm. Try that first and see.

Craig


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