{"id":1491,"date":"2013-01-21T07:21:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T05:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raftaman.net\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2021-05-15T11:46:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T09:46:38","slug":"changing-the-displaymanager-in-fedora-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=1491","title":{"rendered":"Changing the default displaymanager in Fedora 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the release of Fedora 18, there have been <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.fedoraproject.org\/en-US\/Fedora\/18\/html\/Release_Notes\/sect-Release_Notes-Changes_for_Sysadmin.html\">some changes<\/a> to the <code>\/etc\/sysconfig<\/code> directory. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.fedoraproject.org\/en-US\/Fedora\/18\/html\/Release_Notes\/sect-Release_Notes-Changes_for_Desktop.html\">switching the default display manager<\/a> is no longer done by altering parameters in <strong><code>\/etc\/sysconfig\/desktop<\/code><\/strong> but via<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n# systemctl enable --force displaymanager.service \r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Therefore, to switch from the default <code>gdm<\/code> to <strong><code>kdm<\/code><\/strong> you&#8217;d run:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n# systemctl enable --force kdm.service \r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the release of Fedora 18, there have been some changes to the \/etc\/sysconfig directory. For example, switching the default display manager is no longer done by altering parameters in \/etc\/sysconfig\/desktop but via # systemctl enable &#8211;force displaymanager.service Therefore, to switch from the default gdm to kdm you&#8217;d run: # systemctl enable &#8211;force kdm.service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,45],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fedora","tag-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}