flipping Fedora 14's KDE4 to use KDM?

[marko]

With Fedora 13 all I had to do was put

DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE

into /etc/sysconfig/desktop

and do a init 3 and init 5
and kdm would show up as the login manager

but Fedora 14 doesn't seem to work with this, I tried and just get a blank window on top of the dark background. Does someone know if you need to do something more or different to use kdm.

UPDATE / SOLVED - you can yum install system-switch-displaymanager
then run

system-switch-displaymanager kdm

I think my manual way above was almost there but creating /etc/sysconfig/desktop containing

DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE

is now now insufficient, that file now needs:

DESKTOP="KDE"
DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE

I found that out by running "system-switch-displaymanager kdm"

and watching the change it made to the desktop file

[jlc]

You could also do:

PHP Code:

yum install switchdesk-gui 


and then run:

PHP Code:

switchdesk 


http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE#Graphical_interface

[stevea]

I switched the /etc/sysconfig/desktop as above and it works.
No idea why it didn't for the OP.