Is there a way to choose KDE or Gnome on X login screen

OPelerin · Guru Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 354 Location: Belgium

Hi,

I would like know what config is required if I want get either KDE or Gnome sessions available in the menu "session" of my X Login screen. Currently, Login Screen is setup with GDM.

What should I do to get the choice between KDE or Gnome when PC boot?
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ryceck · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 195

Afaik it is as simple as install KDE and make sure that u copy the kde.desktop file which is given with KDE to the X-session directory: /usr/share/xsessions
Then it should appear in GDM as an option

noathustra · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:57 am Post subject:

Depending on your needs, you might have a look at the Qingy thread as well. Qingy is a framebuffer login that you can use as an alternative to gdm/kdm/xdm. The big advantage is that it is much faster to startup. I also think that it is cool.

OPelerin · Guru Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 354 Location: Belgium

Thanks for your tip.

It works as expected

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rush_ad · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:44 pm Post subject:

qingy is great and my login manager. but you can always use gdm and kdm which come with kde and gnome instead xdm which sucks.