Default Desktop.

miazza · 11-26-2008, 02:36 AM

Hello to everybody for my first post in the forum.

I'm really a newby in Linux but normally I learn very quikly.

I have installed KDE in UBUNTU and I find it very nice.
Anyhow I found it a bit heavier of original UBUNTU one.

How can I come back or simply switch the two ?

Thanks

miazza

arochester · 11-26-2008, 03:37 AM

You can switch between the two. On the page where you sign in - where you put your username and password there is an icon where you can choose Session Type - either Gnome or KDE.

miazza · 11-26-2008, 07:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arochester

You can switch between the two. On the page where you sign in - where you put your username and password there is an icon where you can choose Session Type - either Gnome or KDE.

Thanks for the assistance.
So the Gnome is the Default UBUNTU Interface ?

miazza

joanis · 11-26-2008, 08:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by miazza

So the Gnome is the Default UBUNTU Interface ?

Hi miazza,

yes Gnome is the default on UBUNTU
as kde is on KUBUNTU (KDE-Flavour of UBUNTU)
and xfce is on XUBUNTU.

I think when they started UBUNTU gnome was the(ir)
first choice (only guessing that)

/J

joanis · 11-26-2008, 08:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arochester

You can switch between the two. On the page where you sign in - where you put your username and password there is an icon where you can choose Session Type - either Gnome or KDE.

I think just hitting [f10] will do the same (pop up a selection) .

Or is it just GDM-specific?

/J

miazza · 11-26-2008, 01:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joanis

Hi miazza,

yes Gnome is the default on UBUNTU
as kde is on KUBUNTU (KDE-Flavour of UBUNTU)
and xfce is on XUBUNTU.

I think when they started UBUNTU gnome was the(ir)
first choice (only guessing that)

/J

Thanks a lot.

miazza

miazza · 11-28-2008, 05:59 PM

OK. I tried to switch back to Gnome and indeed it works.
Anyhow I have a couple of minor problems:

First is that I need to reconfigure may desktop because all the links I've don in KDE are messed up in Gnome. No problem I need 10 seconds to re arrange them.

Second, I've noted that when I want to switch off, the off selection is not anymore available in Gnome.
I need to change session/user, switch back again to KDE and then I have access to the switch-off button.

Is this normal ?

Thanks

miazza

joanis · 12-02-2008, 06:43 AM

Hi miazza,

when doing google I found this link:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubu...n-kubuntu.html
It's your problem the other way 'round. Maybe a

Code:

dpkg-reconfigure gdm

or

Code:

dpkg-reconfigure gnome-desktop

will do the job.

/J

miazza · 12-02-2008, 11:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joanis

Hi miazza,

when doing google I found this link:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubu...n-kubuntu.html
It's your problem the other way 'round. Maybe a

Code:

dpkg-reconfigure gdm

or

Code:

dpkg-reconfigure gnome-desktop

will do the job.

/J

Yes. This is exactly what happened to me (the other way 'round). i will try.

Thanks

miazza

joanis · 12-03-2008, 04:01 PM

Hi,

now that I'm home:

only root can do that, so you have to become root, by:

Code:

su - root

or just:

Code:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm

Kind regards,
Jan