Hello all,

I'd want to get away from KDE for a while (maybe for good), but i cant for the life of me find the gnome environment on my PC. I know its supposed to be on the pull down menu on the login screen, but the only options there are:

Default
Custom
FVWM
KDE
TVM
XFce4
admin
Failsafe

I've checked by package group in YasT and everything with gmone in the title is installed. Is there some library I'm missing?

Its probably something obvious, but any help would be appreciated. Not being able to leave KDE is making me feel trapped!

Thanks in advance,

Gilbert

what distro are you using. many distros only come with kde or gnome but not both. you may have to install it.

it sounds from your mention of Yast that you're using Suse, but it's better to add that information to the distro field under your username so in the future people can help you better.

if gnome is installed, you would just have to add it to your login manager, whichever one you're using (kde, i guess -- there's probably a gui way to do it somewhere). or you could also change your /etc/inittab to runlevel 3, and add "exec gnome-session" to ~/.xinitrc. then when you booted up, you would type startx after logging in and it would launch gnome.

Hi all,

I went into Yast>Software>Installation into Directory. In there I clicked on 'Software' and then chose the option to install 'Standard System with Gnome'. I got a 1.6GB download of Gnome software over an hour. But when I rebooted my box there was still no Gnome option on the login menu! Gnome is in there, but I just need to get at it!

I think SuSE are far more interested in KDE than they are in Gnome. They make setting up KDE so much easier.

I've tried a file search for /.xinitirc but nothing turned up. Appreciate your patience and any further suggestions you could give to an exasperated newbie!

Thanks,

Gilbert