PCLOS KDE to Gnome?
 

I've got another install of PCLOS and since my Ubuntu seems to be going nowhere, I thought I'd try and work on PSLOS a bit. How do I get the GUI to gnome instead of KDE? I already used Synaptic to download and install the packages necessary. Either way, its late and any insight woudl be appreciated.

If you log out of KDE, you should see a login manager. Enter your username, password and the session you wish to run.

Didn't see the session thing down there.

Gnome doesn't seem to like to load. I get a couple errors and the desktop icon's are all screwed up. I guess I'll just have to stick with KDE for PCLOS, and keep working on getting Ubuntu to work right.

Gnome works just fine in PCLOS. Double check that you have all of the Gnome2 files you need. Keep in mind though that PCLOS is primarily a KDE distro.

Open Synaptic and use search to find gnome2, select this and it will add the dependencies and then apply. You will have gnome.

Try looking through the wiki:
PCLinuxOS New User Guide: The PCLinuxOS New User Guide Wiki
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/wiki/HomePage

Or the Official PCLinuxOS forum:
PCLinuxOS
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php

Just saw your thread in the PCLOS forum. Did you get the problems worked out?

Ok I just installed Gnome. It loads and runs just fine. The only thing I see is that the icons are way to big, but that is a Gnome thing.

There is a way to change the icon size but I am not really familiar with Gnome. I prefer KDE or IceWM.


Seems this is the way to change icon sizes in Gnome:
Applications->Desktop Preferences->File Management Preferences.

Under the "Icon View Defaults"

I've not played with it again, I did get it to load and all that. I thought I clicked all the dependencies in Synaptic. I'm getting more comfortable with all of this stuff. Ironically, I'm helping a friend install Windows at the moment O_O!. He's a redneck from the south..no converting this one. Sorry :(