Matt Giwer wrote:
> There are regularly questions on how to do it. This is not for FC4
> and I never installed FC5. But for FC6 the basic system start up is a
> graphics screen ending with a graphics login screen.
>
> Go to the bottom left and look at the second from the left which is
> labeled session or some such. Click and it will give you a choice of KDE
> or Gnome and the option of making your choice the default.
>
> It could not be simpler.

Speaking of which I choose KDE as I do many different things from internet news
and usenet to povray and my website and more. I have different desktops for each
different thing. When I do a formal logout from KDE with a left click on the
desktop it saves my entire configuration. It saves all the windows and
applications for each desktop on that desktop so they are there when I reboot.
If gnome can do that I have not figured out how to do it.

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On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 07:09:40 -0500, Matt Giwer wrote:
> Speaking of which I choose KDE as I do many different things
> from internet news and usenet to povray and my website and more. I
> have different desktops for each different thing.
>
> When I do a formal logout from KDE with a left click on the desktop
> it saves my entire configuration. It saves all the windows and
> applications for each desktop on that desktop so they are there when
> I reboot.

Yeah, I had that session feature turned on until one day an
application was eating 100% cpu . 10 to 15 minutes for ctl+alt+del to
take control. Next login, KDE restored the process, same 100% usage.

I no longer enable that feature.

On login, I have a ~/.kde/Autostart/startup which execute scripts
which jump to different desktops and start my different applications.

Example startup snippet:
kstart --desktop 3 --windowclass Kdesktop /site/bin/xusenet &

That also allows me to create shortcuts to run the script when I want
to just click to jump to the desktop and execute it.
If the app is running it does not execute it. Script follows:


#************************************************* ***********
#*
#* xusenet - xterm log into the usenet account via ssh
#*
#* ~usenet/.bash_profile executes app and upon app completion, exits
#*
#************************************************* ***********

_user=usenet
_target=$(hostname)
_app=slrn

dcop kwin default setCurrentDesktop 3

pgrep -U $_user $_app
if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
exit 0
fi

xterm -title $_user -display $DISPLAY -geom 30x3+439+339 \
-e ssh $_user@$_target &

#****************** end xusenet *************************

Bit Twister wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 07:09:40 -0500, Matt Giwer wrote:
>> Speaking of which I choose KDE as I do many different things
>> from internet news and usenet to povray and my website and more. I
>> have different desktops for each different thing.
>> When I do a formal logout from KDE with a left click on the desktop
>> it saves my entire configuration. It saves all the windows and
>> applications for each desktop on that desktop so they are there when
>> I reboot.

> Yeah, I had that session feature turned on until one day an
> application was eating 100% cpu . 10 to 15 minutes for ctl+alt+del to
> take control. Next login, KDE restored the process, same 100% usage.

Pull plug.

> I no longer enable that feature.

I don't know from enabling anything. I've used it for years and never had a
problem.

> On login, I have a ~/.kde/Autostart/startup which execute scripts
> which jump to different desktops and start my different applications.
>
> Example startup snippet:
> kstart --desktop 3 --windowclass Kdesktop /site/bin/xusenet &
>
> That also allows me to create shortcuts to run the script when I want
> to just click to jump to the desktop and execute it.
> If the app is running it does not execute it. Script follows:
>
>
> #************************************************* ***********
> #*
> #* xusenet - xterm log into the usenet account via ssh
> #*
> #* ~usenet/.bash_profile executes app and upon app completion, exits
> #*
> #************************************************* ***********
>
> _user=usenet
> _target=$(hostname)
> _app=slrn
>
> dcop kwin default setCurrentDesktop 3
>
> pgrep -U $_user $_app
> if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
> exit 0
> fi
>
> xterm -title $_user -display $DISPLAY -geom 30x3+439+339 \
> -e ssh $_user@$_target &
>
> #****************** end xusenet *************************


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