From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041114 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: The current prefdm script chooses the display manager by looking at the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file and reading the $DISPLAYMANAGER variable. This variable should usually be set to "KDE", "GNOME", etc each with their own default manager. If a user installs a 3rd party display manager like entrance (http://xcomputerman.com/pages/entrance.html), the user has no way to be able to run it in the standard run level 6 without editing the scripts themselves. Suggested solution is to add another variable that points to the binary of the display manager or allow a full path to a display manager to be set via the $DISPLAYMANAGER. If the execution of this binary fails, log it and run one of the fallback managers. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Not applicable. Additional info:
Will be added in 8.08-1. In the meantime, you can set 'preferred' directly in /etc/sysconfig/desktop, and that should work.