Using KDE instead of GNOME

11Dec07

GNOME vs KDE is often a flame war and I don’t feel like pouring any petrol over that. That said, given that GNOME is the default in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (along with SUSE, another major business Linux distribution), and as I’m learning for a Red Hat exam, GNOME’s where I’m going to be spending most of my time. Nevertheless, I wanted to try out KDE again, so I installed it.

There wasn’t any obvious way of switching to it in Fedora. The way to do it is to go into the command line and type:

vim .xinitrc

In Vim, I created a file containing the following:

#!/bin/sh
startkde

I saved it and then typed:

startx

Voila! The opposite of startkde is not startgnome, by the way, but gnome-session.

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