Switching between GNOME and KDE desktops in Fedora Core

Applies to:

Solution:

To select GNOME as the desktop environment, set the following values in /etc/sysconfig/desktop: 

DESKTOP="GNOME" 
DISPLAYMANAGER="GNOME"

To switch to KDE, use these values: 

DESKTOP="KDE" 
DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"