On Wednesday 05 November 2003 03:25 pm, you wrote: > thanks Greg for your swift reply, but a little patience is needed with > me. I do not have any idea what you are talking about with the > etc/sysconfig > where is this found and how do i do it... sorry as this says i am a > newbie in every respect.I will not give up on linux i think it is brill > but al this typing in stuff is over my head.
I am happy to help. Within the filesystem, there is a directory called /etc that holds all the configuration info for your machine. Within that, there is a directory called sysconfig that holds config files related to the machine preferences. Within that directory, there is a file called desktop that holds the default desktop preference. You can learn a lot about your system by simply exploring the /etc directory. Are you using autologin? If so, just open Mandrake Control Center and go to drakboot, which is in the boot section. Just change the default desktop and save and you should be good to go. If you are not using autologin, to make KDE the default for your user, just type the following at a command prompt while you are in your home directory: echo DESKTOP=KDE .desktop Step by step to get you through it. 1) exit GNOME or whatever window manager you are in so you are looking at the graphical login prompt. 2) hit the ctrl-alt-F1 key combo to get to a console 3) log in as the user you want to set the default for 4) type 'echo DESKTOP=KDE .desktop' without the quotes 5) logout by typing 'logout' 6) hit alt-F7 to return to the gui, and try to login using the default as the desktop choice. I am copying this back to the newbie list so that others might benefit from reading it now, or from scanning the archives later. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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