[clue-tech] SWITCHING DISPLAY MANAGERS FROM TERMINAL?

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 02:14:01 -0700
Tony M. Davis wrote:

> I'm a newbie and have no idea how to get my desktop back to Gnome.  I 
> did research and have managed to figure out how to get the terminal up, 
> but can't find the command that would switch me back to Gnome.  Can I 
> even change it from the terminal?  If not there, where?  Any help would 
> be appreciated.

Getting a console login is a good thing to know how to do. So login as
yourself, and then edit .dmrc using vim or emacs (likely you have vim
there on a fresh install). Just 2 lines in this file, such as:

[Desktop]
Session=Fvwm

Yours likely says 'Session=KDE', so you'd just change that to Gnome.


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