Opensuse won't change desktops

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Hi all,

New user and first post here. Hopefully this is the right place for my question?

I installed Opensuse 13.1 yesterday to try something new from Ubuntu. I was playing around last night changing to the different desktops to see what they all look like and offer in way of changes. I was doing it by way of YAST> /etc/sysconfig> Desktop> Window manager> Default_WM. Everything was okay and I went to sleep after playing around getting familiar all day.

Woke up this morning and decided which interface I wanted to use for now, XFCE, but now the desktop won’t change. If I set XFCE, hit CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE (twice) nothing happens? It’s still on KDE4. I tried rebooting back into it, tried shutting off the laptop awhile to let the memory dump, nothing works. It just stays “stuck” on KDE4. What am I missing? I also tried to change to all of the other interfaces too, nada.

TIA,
Mark

EDIT: FWIW, I downloaded Opensuse ISO and burned it to DVD for the install, did any obligatory updates after install and everything is running fine, except for this issue?

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Hi,

did you try this, logut from KDE session, from sesion manager mark to use Xfce ?

Regards

CM

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To clarify, click on the “wrench” symbol on the login screen, you can change the desktop session you want to start there.
KDM remembers this setting for each user.
And if this is not set to “Default”, DEFAULT_WM has no effect of course.

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Well duh? Thank you both, didn’t even think of that as it’s how I always did it in Ubuntu. rotfl!

This way worked fine!

Mark