Re: kdm (kde) and gnome

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 08:26:33PM +0200 or thereabouts, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On 09 Apr 2001 14:09:11 -0400, John Nelson wrote:
> > I wonder, what would you do if you didn't have the session menu at the
> > long prompt?  Without the login panel (just the traditional text-based
> > login).
> 
> You'd put this as last line in $USER/.xsession file:
> 
> "exec kde2" or
> "exec gnome-session"
> 
> respectively (without quotation marks), then startx would start one or
> the other

Or, since the original questioner mentioned Red Hat, you'd grab
the switchdesk package from the CD, and run switchdesk from either
console or within X. Offers you a choice between the currently-
installed environments and saves it for the future.

Telsa