Bjorn,

Have you tried this (for RedHat)

edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop
If it says GNOME in there, your login manager will be GNOME, if you put KDE in there, it will start KDE as login manager...

Im on Slackware, not Redhat

Ok,

Do you know where to find your xinitrc ?
(in rh its in /etc/X11/xinit )

Open that file and look for a line where a PREFERRED check is done.
This will look in a specific file to see which session-manager it should start.

If there's nothing about this PREFERRED in the xinitrc, then look in this file for gnome-session, and replace it with startkde

startkde is the command to get the kde-login manager.

OK....gang- maybe you can all pounce on this (I hope). I think it sort of follows this thread. I can tell by your messages that you know a heck of a lot more about this than I do.

I have loaded RH9 - minimum - and it boots to the login screen 'localhost login' where I insert 'root' and then my password.

Next I get a screen that says "[root@localhost root]#" .
Without the quotes of course but what I would like is a windows type desktop such as you get from Knoppix Linux. What is my next move?

I intend to use this as a router only, at least initially, so I would like to have the desktop where I can set up my NIC and so on.

Any help appreciated....

melo

Try startx, but a minimal/server/router type install might not have X installed to enable any graphical interface.

By golly,
I have tried all of those suggestions in RedHat9, and all I got was a big mess that I had to fix without X. (Helped me to learn about Emacs though). I was unable change the login manager to kdm. What actually caused me the problem was something else, but still it was always loading GDM instead of KDM. The main reason I want KDM is because I use this computer personally and like to shut it down. Therefor, I log in quite a bit. I wanted the Login Manager to use the Keramik theame. Something I could do with KDM, but not GDM (am I mistaken). Anyways, it seems that RedHat 9 desided to be a big pain about not using GDM for everything. (They must really like the Bluecurve theme) Anyhow, any help with Red Hat 9 would be appriciated.

Thanks,

TGNGAJK

And I say, why can't an admiral fly a starship?

use gnome it seems to load quicker and it can do everything that KDE does....GNOME is da 1 to use...!

gee, that really helped!

Why are people having problems with this question?

You want to use KDM instead of GDM, right?

edit this file: /etc/rc.d/rc.4

and # out GDM, and un # KDM.

I have used this to switch to KDM login manager :

edit your /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Then at the bottom you would enter kdm

Go here for help on this thread. http://docs.kde.org/en/3.1/kdebase/k...m-for-kdm.html

TGnGAJK

Good link. Thank you.

if you remove the gdm rpm from the redhat package manager (i.e. rpm -e ) then you will get the kde manager