I've been trying to replace KDE with Ratpoison, but KDE seems to have an extremely strong will to live and no matter what I do I can't get any other window manager to start up. Here's what I've done.

I'm on FC2 and have downloaded ratpoison-1.3.0-1.rhfc2.nr.i386.rpm and installed it. I use gdm on bootup. There's a file called RatPoison in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/ which looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession ratpoison


In my home directory I have a file called .xsession which looks like this (should it be .xsession or .Xsession - I've tried both?):
#!/bin/sh
exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession ratpoison


I also have a file called .Xclients which is exactly the same as the xsession file.

I have modified /etc/sysconfig/desktop to look like this:
   ###DESKTOP="KDE"
   DESKTOP=""

None of this seems to have made a blind bit of difference. When I boot into Windows I get the gdm screen and select Ratpoison from the Alt-S sessions menu, but even then it _still_ fires up KDE.

I noticed that someone in gossamer-threads once said that all was involved was installing the Ratpoison rpm and making a one line change to a config file. Mmmmm.... perhaps he wasn't running FC2!

Does anyone know what I have to do to get KDE to just butt out?

TIA,
Phill _______________________________________________
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