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How do I change the desktop manager for X?

Well, if you take a look in /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients, you see that the script chooses the preferred desktop according to the value of /etc/sysconfig/desktop. I recommend reading the Xclients scripts to make sure that it understands the options you want, but here's what works on my computers:

/etc/sysconfig/desktop
KDE
GNOME
AnotherLevel

Last updated on 2001-10-31 14:00:00 -0700, by Shalom Craimer

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