Setting Your Login Preferences To Gnome/KDE

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Written by Carlos Peraza on 2005-07-07

This is a very easy task in fedora and it can be accomplish in many ways. This will be usefull if you have installed Gnome, KDE or other desktop enviroments. I will explain three known methods. Gnome is the default desktop for fedora and to change it to KDE you will need to edit the /sysconfig/desktop file.

Method 1:

You can edit the

/etc/sysconfig/desktop

and change from

DESKTOP="GNOME"

to

DESKTOP="KDE"

Method 2:

You can use the command line to switch from gnome to kde and vice-versa. Simply open terminal and run the following command to switch to KDE:

switchdesk kde

Now to switch back to GNOME run:

switchdesk gnome

Method 3:

You can install via yum a switchdesk-gui tool from the repositories or fedora extras. Open terminal, become root and run:

yum install switchdesk-gui

and it install in less than 2 minutes. Once it has installed go to preferences >more preferences >Desktop Switching Tool and change to your favorite desktop enviroment.

Here is an example from the terminal:

[root@laptopFC4 imdeemvp]# yum install switchdesk-gui
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
livna                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
freshrpms                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  70 kB    00:01
livna     : ################################################## 223/223
Added 6 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.60 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 121 kB    00:03
updates-re: ################################################## 346/346
Added 33 new packages, deleted 0 old in 1.44 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  41 kB    00:01
freshrpms : ################################################## 120/120
Added 3 new packages, deleted 2 old in 0.37 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 440 kB    00:11
extras    : ################################################## 1251/1251
Added 76 new packages, deleted 5 old in 3.83 seconds
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for switchdesk-gui to pack into transaction set.
switchdesk-gui-4.0.6-3.no 100% |=========================|  19 kB    00:00
---> Package switchdesk-gui.noarch 0:4.0.6-3 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 switchdesk-gui          noarch     4.0.6-3          base              126 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
Total download size: 126 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): switchdesk-gui-4.0 100% |=========================| 126 kB    00:03
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing: switchdesk-gui               ######################### [1/1]

Installed: switchdesk-gui.noarch 0:4.0.6-3
Complete!
[root@laptopFC4 imdeemvp]#