[TriLUG] Confusion on Desktops vs.Windows Managers

[H. Wade Minter]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Vestal, Roy L. wrote:

> Okey.
>
>  I'm trying to figure out how to globally set my window manager to kde. I
> have installed ximian-gnome but I'm looking at removing it and I'd like to
> revert back to the KDE manager first.

Depends on your distro.  If you're using Red Hat, you can edit
/etc/sysconfig/desktop, and set DESKTOP="KDE" to go to KDE.

Note that this trick only works for Gnome and KDE.

--Wade