Date: November 10, 2012 In the process of trying to build some random package that uses the Qt library, I installed a bundle of KDE packages, and after a reboot found myself with a KDE desktop. I haven't seen KDE in many years, and frankly it looked interesting and well polished. However, it was not at all what I had in mind, and I was eager to figure out how to switch back to running xfce (no sane person runs Gnome these days).

I could select an xfce session every time I log in, but that would make me crazy. I want xfce to be the default. It turns out this is extremely easy. This is on a Fedora 17 system by the way. 

sudo yum install switchdesktop
switchdesktop xfce
There is also a switchdesktop-gui package you could install. /bin/switchdesktop is a fairly straightforward shell script that you could examine if curious.

This would also be just the thing if you wanted to abandon gnome for xfce or some other desktop environment of your choosing.

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