switching from gnome to KDE2

[thonot]

I run RH6.2 w/heilix gnome. I just installed KDE2(from rpm) to try it out, but I can't seem to get kde to load properly. I have X set to start automatically, I've selecting a kde session from the login window, but gnome fires up anyway. The desk switching tool for gnome doesn't even recognize kde's existence. Is there a configuration file I can alter manually?

[aflynt]

Just went through exactly the same thing. I wound up commenting everyting out of the .Xclients script in the /root directory and inserting the following line:
/usr/bin/startkde
This gives you KDE no matter what user logs on.
The desktop switching tool will probably wipe out your changes if you run it though.
Someone else may have a more elegant solution but this works fine for me(all I ever use is KDE anyway, and if I want to switch to GNOME I can just edit the file again).

Aaron Flynt

[lookie]

vi /etc/sysconfig/desktop
(Create if it doesn't exist)

enter: DESKTOP="KDE"