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andreyvul
November 26th, 2009, 10:09 PM
I installed ubuntustudio and the default DM changed from KDE to GNOME. How do I change the system DM (back) to KDE?

Note: I'm runnning X via startx instead of kdm.
bmorency
November 28th, 2009, 04:43 AM
I installed ubuntustudio and the default DM changed from KDE to GNOME. How do I change the system DM (back) to KDE?

Note: I'm runnning X via startx instead of kdm.


in the console type this:


more /etc/X11/default-display-manager

What comes up for you? I have:

/usr/bin/kdm

If you don't have that try to change it and see what happens.
andreyvul
November 28th, 2009, 08:27 AM
Yes, cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager outputs /usr/bin/kdm, but the root cause has something do do with Xsession options.
Now, I'm looking over /etc/X11/Xsession.options to see where it imports the WM envvar or whatever it uses from.
bmorency
November 28th, 2009, 02:31 PM
I found this site. it may help you out.

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/changeman.html