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From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org>
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On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:10:51PM -0400 or thereabouts, Ben Shin seemed to write:
> Is there a way to change the desktop (i.e. KDE, GNOME, WM) on a 
> user-by-user basis?

For KDE:
$ echo exec startkde > ~user/.xinitrc
For GNOME:
$ echo exec gnome-session > ~user/.xinitrc
For another WM:
$ echo exec <WMname> > ~user/.xinitrc
where <WMname> is icewm for IceWM, blackbox for blackbox, etc.

Now, no matter which one you did:
$ echo '#!/bin/sh' > ~user/.xsession
$ cat ~user/.xinitrc >> ~user/.xsession
$ chmod +x ~user/.xsession

HTH,
-- Josh

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