Jeff Siddall writes:
> So why does GDM still default to Gnome? Grrr... So I am fed up
> with GDM. Any ideas how I ditch GDM and switch to KDM?
Here's how I did it, 3 steps:
yum install -y xorg-x11-xinit-session
Create a file /etc/sysconfig/desktop containing the line
DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE
and a patch for /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession is attached.
Alec
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Alec Habig, University of Minnesota Duluth Physics Dept.
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http://neutrino.d.umn.edu/~habig/
--- /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession.issue 2011-03-14 12:54:05.862817718 -0500
+++ /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession 2011-03-14 12:54:05.879720291 -0500
@@ -30,6 +30,14 @@
# Xsession and xinitrc scripts which has been factored out to avoid duplication
. /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common
+# RHEL6 GDM doesn't seem to support selectable sessions, and always requests a
+# gnome-session. So we unset this default here, to allow things like user
+# .xsession or .Xclients files to be checked, and /etc/sysconfig/desktop
+# settings (via /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients) honoured.
+if [ -n "$GDMSESSION" -a $# -eq 1 -a "$1" = gnome-session ]; then
+ shift
+fi
+
# This Xsession.d implementation, is intended to obsolte and replace the
# various mechanisms present in the 'case' statement which follows, and to
# eventually be able to easily remove all hard coded window manager specific
