I installed kde on my fedora 13 VM and now I want to switch to KDE . How can I do this?
2 Answers
Check if /usr/bin/X
exists, if not do
yum install xorg-x11-server-Xorg
if its already installed, reinstall it by doing
yum reinstall xorg-x11-server-Xorg
I'm not sure what you mean by command line terminal. You can switch to kde by modifying or creating a file called .xinitrc
in your home directory. In that file, you will want to find any lines referring to your old window manager (probably gnome-session
) and comment them. Add startkde
in your .xinitrc
. Here's an example:
#!/bin/bash
xsetroot -solid black
startkde
You can also create a separate .xinitrc
file to launch your X session independently:
xinit ~/.xinitrc.kde -- :1
This would launch your X session using a file called .xinitrc.kde
and use display :1
. With this method, you could run 2 X sessions at the same time while testing. To switch between them, use Ctrl+Alt+F7 and Ctrl+Alt+F8.
This method will work in almost all linux distros.
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1@teahupoo almost, he means "home directory" as the user's base directory, usually /home/user, or ~/ as a shorcut (if you are 'user') Mar 12, 2013 at 19:32