I have my RedHat 9 installed at home. I don't like the looks of the Redhat, so I decide to upgrade the XFree86, kde.

Downloaded the X and installed it, downloaded KDE and upgraded.

Here is the problem.

The default window manager was changed to fvwm, I can get only get into my kde by editing my .xinitrc file to use startkde.

I don't know where I can start from to make the kdm or gdm stop using the fvwm. I have tried, in the gdm kdm, no matter what I choice, they all start my disktop with the fvwm.

Can some one please tell me where I could get some useful information or documentation.

If you can tell me the trick that is even more welcomed.

Thanks.

gdm/kdm sessions are stored in

/etc/X11/Sessions ... i know this works with gdm not sure about kdm

in that dir make an init script, i.e. identical to ~/.initrc then it should show up, at least i know, in gdm

Thanks.
I will give it a try.

I changed my /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession file, let it pass the %@ to the $HOME/.xsession like this:

startup=$HOME/.xsession
resources=$HOME/.Xresources

if [ -s "$startup" ]; then
if [ -x "$startup" ]; then
exec "$startup" $@
else
exec /bin/sh "$startup" $@
fi
else
if [ -r "$resources" ]; then
xrdb -load "$resources"
fi
exec xsm
fi

I edited my .xsession file:
#!/bin/bash
. $HOME/.bashrc
startkde
echo "$0 || $1 || $2" > $HOME/.xsession_args
echo $SHELL >>$HOME/.xsession_args
echo `whoami`>>$HOME/.xsession_args
echo `env`>>$HOME/.xsession_args

I use startkde start my session.
It is working, but I think if I could make the Xsession more intelligent, that is a better solution for this problem. Or maybe I should find the originial Xsession file and use it.
Thanks, a lot to StuNNed

This should work.

echo "DESKTOP=KDE" > ~/.desktop
startx