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01-24-2005, 06:21 PM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Fedora Core 3
Posts: 56
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KDE or Gnome?
How do I know which one I am using? And how can you switch between the two?
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01-24-2005, 06:27 PM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Denmark
Distribution: Debian / Suse
Posts: 223
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Where windows has a "start" button in the lower left corner, KDE has a button with a "K" on it.
Many distributions will let you switch between the X window managers in the login process.
On debian distributions you can install kde or gnome by doing a:
sudo apt-get install kde
or
sudo apt-get install gnome
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01-24-2005, 06:28 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: UK
Distribution: Debian SID / KDE 3.5
Posts: 2,313
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Usually KDE has a K with a Cog for the main menu where GNOME has a foot.
Also KDE has a Control Center, and a lot of the apps names begin with K.
Gnome has GConf, and a lot of the apps names begin with G.
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01-24-2005, 06:44 PM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Fedora Core 3
Posts: 56
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Well I chose to install both KDE and Gnome during the install setup process of Fedora. Actually I'm not sure which I am using, because I have neither the foot or the K. I'm using whatever the default is for Fedora. I have my start menu at the top with a small 'redhat' next to the Applications menu. Which one is this?
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01-24-2005, 07:03 PM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Omaha, NE, USA
Distribution: PCLinuxOS 2007
Posts: 808
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I think RehHat/Fedora defaults to Gnome.
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01-24-2005, 07:06 PM
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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: Fedora Core 4
Posts: 82
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The default for Fedora is Gnome but KDE is installed if someone wants to switch over.
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01-24-2005, 09:26 PM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Fedora Core 3
Posts: 56
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Ok, so I figured out how to get into KDE. When you get to the login screen you can go to Sessions and change it to KDE. But how can I default to KDE? On reboot it goes back to Gnome.
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01-25-2005, 12:31 AM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Fedora Core 3
Posts: 56
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I figured out how to do it. You have to edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop and change it from GNOME to KDE.
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