I have upgraded to Fedora 9 from Fedora 7 which used GNOME for the root account and Xfce for a user account.

One issue was the inclusion of Firebird 3 Beta 5 as many of my Add-Ons now don't work. (That was a very bad move, Fedora!)

However, I want to use KDE. Acting on advice in another thread, I used the command, yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)" I now see a number of applications with the K prefix.

When I start up I see the mouse symbol of Xfce. I then log out; log into root and it runs GNOME. I then log out and log back into the user account and it is running GNOME.

How do I get the session option running on the log-in page and then get KDE running?

As a weak pun, the name given to this release is Sulphur. It sure is starting to be a bad smell under my nose! LOL.

I think all the files you need are here:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/upda...DORA-2008-3664

I think you should have just used yum to install kdebase and gone from there. I think that will update your login screen to include kde as an option. You can add the other kde packages on that page as you wish afterward.

Hi ehawk

Thanks for the info. I ran this and it advised that I had already installed it and it was the latest version and there was nothing to do.

I think I will do some backing up of salient data and do a clean install.

okay, if you are going to do a clean install, there is a live-evaluation KDE version of fedora 9:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora


This page says that fedora 9 was supposed to include KDE 4.0.3 by default.
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/26784
I guess what they mean is that the KDE version of it has it by default. I thought the default of fedora 9 was just to have gnome *shrug*.

Don't be too hard on yourself. This guy couldn't figure out how to install KDE from the default repositories, either:
http://blogs.technet.com/seanearp/ar...l-pc-2007.aspx

Aha...this post explains how to do it, look toward the bottom:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=185501

You can install KDE after the fact with;
yum groupinstall KDE

Then install the switchdesk utility with;
yum install switchdesk

Then, use switchdesk to set KDE
switchdesk kde"

You got KDE installed all right, but you couldn't switch to it without using switchdesk, I guess. Strange, ever time I have added a new window manager in linux, the login screen has been updated accordingly. Oh well....the login screen will be updated after you get into KDE and logout.

Also, this person comments on a bug which may be causing people grief:
"I was able to get the session changer to show up only after clicking on the username. It disappears when a username is not selected."

SUCCESS!

Thanks ehawk for your detective work. After using the switchdesk command, I had a couple of moments being somewhat disconcerted as my monitor was over-scanning when the login screen was up thus I initially missed the bottom tool bar. Like the other person, I had to click on the username in order to get the session changer to appear.

Cheers

Just for curiosity: did you upgrade using 'yum upgrade' or was it an upgrade using an installer disk? So far I have only upgraded one version at a time, unless when using fresh installs.

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Yeah, if using a package manager, I think you should only attempt to upgrade one version at a time. This is also the recommended way to upgrade ubuntu. I was able to upgrade from 5.low_number to 7.10 in this manner.

I upgraded using the installer disk and the "upgrade existing system option". It did so without creating any error messages, nor any warning about upgrading over more than one version.