First - I am a LINUX newbie - just beginning to understand its workings.

I have UBUNTU 5.10 installed. Working fine, no problems. I recently tried the KUBUNTU Live, and really like the look & feel of KDE.

My question - In my installed UBUNTU system, can I switch from Gnome desktop to KDE and back? Can both desktop environments be on my system, giving me a choice when starting the X windows? How? What do I have to install? (I don't see anything in the Synaptic list - but I am not really sure what to look for.)

I didn't see anything in previous posts addressing this. Hope I didn't just miss them.

VA3OG

PS - Merry Christmas!

install the package kubuntu-desktop.

INGVILDR - thank you!

(Embarrassed pause)
That was easy - should have found that myself!
Now that the install is done & after re-booting, my login came up looking like KUBUNTU, but my final desktop came up exactly as it had been before. Now I am confused - is it KDE or Gnome that is running. Looks like Gnome!

At boot up, I wasn't given an option as to which environment I want to use. During the install, I did select KDE as the default. Is there something else I should be doing? In advance, Thanks!

va3og

at login there is a menu called sessions click on that and select the DE you would like to start. And about the kubuntu splash on startup that is because when you install kubuntu-desktop it includes a package called splash kubuntu or something or other, i think you can install the one you had before again try a search for 'splash ubuntu' in synaptic.

Many thanks, ingvildr. Running fine now. Now to learn more about linux itself.
va3og

I prefer gnome over the KDE. I mean sure the KDE is all friendly and stuff, but a lot of stuff just doesn't work right on most of my machines... >_>

it's no problem to install both, KDE and Gnome. I also did this, but I still prefer Gnome

How can I completly remove Kubuntu stuff? All dependencies?

If i wanted to do something like that i would most likely do a apt-get remove kdebase kdelibs kdenetwork etc to all the big kde package groups then run deborphan and pick off any left over libs. Hope this helps

I installed latest kubuntu on a Dell laptop. Install went well. Only problem is the linksys pcmcia wireless networking is not working.

pcmcia tab in control panel doesn't see anything in the pcmcia slot

bootup shows pcmcia module is loaded at startup
anybody have any suggestions for getting the system to recognize this linksys pcmcia wireless card?