Jeremy, Red Hat's switchdesk did it. Thanks George -----Original Message----- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:49:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" Subject: Re: How To Replace GNOME with KDE On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, George Gambill wrote: > RedHat 8.0. GNOME currently starts at "startx". Looking at the packages > installed (System Settings | Packages), I see that KDE was also installed. > > Hot do I tell the system to bring up KDE at "startx" time? Red Hat comes with a tool called switchdesk. Have a look at its manual page. When using startx, startx starts xinit which can use your ~/.xinitrc file. That file can have "exec startkde" as another way to do it. (By the way, I think this was discuss on the list recently; have a look in the archives.) Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/