During install I chose KDE, but when I login in all I see is a clock and a terminal. When I click I get an XFM menu. What the hell is this and how do I start KDE?

there should be a menu option right below the clock... choose KDE.

I am having the same issue. Fedora Core 2 worked fine on this machine. I reformatted the drives and installed Core 3 and it boots to a green screen, terminal window and clock. I have no menu options and can't go any further. The terminal windows extends beyond my screen with no scrollbars. Very strange.

How do i get past this??

I did click on the session on the bottom and wait for a choices screen pop up before you type your username and password... Or anyone of you have better idea for shortcut??

what u have is twm i think... the tabbed window manager which ships with X, u should run:

system-config-packages at the prompt as root and make sure u have kde installed, if u do then run :

switchdesk KDE

Thanks Bro. I'll give that a go.
I reverted back to FC2 for the meantime. I think i'll wipe it clean and do a fresh intall of FC3 again.

Anyhow. I appreciate your help.

pleasure

I had the same problem when I installed FC3 with just with KDE, Without Gnome.

It did not matter if I selected KDE as my default It always loged-in to the Bare bones X11.


The solution was simple:

I edited /etc/sysconfig/dekstop to set the window manager as kde and the desktop manager as kdm.

Oh, and a recommendation. Next time you have a question search to see if it has already been answered. It will save you all some time.



Read this thread

or

this link

I got the second one as the fifth response when searching in google for

"FC3 KDE default desktop manager"

There was no need to reinstall or revert back to a previous distro. All you had to do was login as a normal user and do "switchdesk kde" or as root edit /etc/sysconfig/dekstop and change the default desktop to KDE.

And reddazz said
Actually reddazz when you only install the KDE in FC3 "switchdesk" does not work. As I said in my post, I had the same problem, tried selecting KDE from the login screen menu, nothing. Tried switchdesk from a failsafe console, nothing. I had to edit the desktop file manually.

I did not put much thought into it being a bug as I know Fedora is mainly a Gnome distro.

And I wholeheartedly agree, he did not have to revert to an older distro.

I usually install GNOME only so I haven't encountered the bugs on FC with KDE. Its worth reporting potential bugs so that they are sorted out in future releases.