Making GNOME the default WM (not KDE)

[Hummer]

Hey All,

I'm not sure why this is, but whenever I boot up my system (currently running Red Hat Linux 7.1) and type my user/password into the GNOME login GUI, it defaults automatically to KDE unless I chose "GNOME" from the "Session" menu up the top. Even when I open the KDE and GNOME desktop switching programs and chose GNOME, everytime I reboot, it automatially loads a KDE session unless I specify otherwise. Worse still, when I install programs, it installs the menu icons to KDE and not GNOME, meaning I have to find the executables, link to them and then try to hunt down the icons.

Is there anyway to tell set GNOME as the default WM on bootup/login?

As I mentioned, I'm running Red Hat Linux 7.1 and I've only been a Linux user for about 3 weeks :) Any help/thoughts/ideas you can impart would be greatly appreciated!

Hummer

[av8or]

Did you try typing switchdesk at a terminal prompt?

[mrBen]

Does your login box not have a 'Session' menu from which you can choose GNOME? If there are no options on your login box then you will need to edit one of your config files, I think it's .Xsession, which probably includes a line to start KDE, which you need to change to execute GNOME and the window manager you want to use.

Sorry, not much help :(

[ronmon]

Take a look in your home directory for your .xinitrc file. If you don't have one, make one. Put one line in it:

exec gnome-session

That's it. Start/Restart X.

[Strike]

Try not to post the topic four times too :)

I'll get rid of the others