Hi guys,
I downloaded and installed KDE 3.4 via synaptic onto my fc3 laptop 2 days ago. After rebooting to the login screen, I discovered that gnome is no longer a login option. After googling to find a solution online. I discovered a thread from another forum about the same problem in Suse 9.2 . and tried copying my gnome.desktop from /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop over to /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/gnome.desktop but it still doesn't work. Did anyone install KDE 3.4 and managed to get this problem solved? Thanks.


Yogi.


ps. Sorry I couldn't post the link as I have started less than 5 threads. You should be able to find it if you google "gnome gone kde 3.4"

Quick fix (not a full solution):
If you really need gnome back but just can't run it, "switchdesk gnome" at the console will switch your default DE to gnome. I'm not sure of the configuration file for the startup options, but what I just told you will reboot you into a gnome session by default.

Hi azucaro,
thanks for the reply. I tried your method but i think the synaptic installation of KDE 3.4 did abit more to Gnome than I expected.
Here's the output.

Red Hat Linux switchdesk 4.0
Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Red Hat, Inc
Redistributable under the terms of the GNU General Public License
ERROR: GNOME not installed!

Hope someone who's installed the same thing found a way to get around this problem. Cheers!


Yogi

Does Synaptic say that Gnome is installed at all? An installation of KDE 3.4 shouldn't touch Gnome...

You could try rpm -q gnome* to see what rpm packages containing the word "gnome" are on your system. If nothing is returned, I'd reinstall gnome, because it wouldn't seem that it is there at all.

Hi azucaro,
thanks for the reminder. I finally realised what was wrong. The gnome-session package was removed during the installation of KDE 3.4. I've just reinstalled it and GNOME is now back on the menu and working fine. Hope my experience can help others in the same situation. Cheers!


Yogi

Wow, that is really strange. Did you report that to the KDE team? I'm sure that they'd be interested in an issue like this.

Any one else out there have this problem?