How to change from gnome to KDE and back?

Peter Reed @ gmail mrdeadworry at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 14:08:52 UTC 2011


> > > Hello,
> > > I would like to try KDE But I don't want to reinstall f14. Is there way
> > > to switch to KDE and then back to gnome? I did select the KDE also
> > > during the installation. at the present time I have gnome running.
> > 
> > su -c "yum install @kde-desktop"
> > then look in the drop down menu in the login screen.
> > Peter
> 
> I execute the line by copy it in the terminal went through several line and
> end with nothing to do Here is the result. I do not have a drop down
> menu on my login screen.
> 
> [Vinny at Lab2 ~]$ su -c "yum install @kde-desktop"
> Password:
> Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
> Adding en_US to language list
> Setting up Install Process

snip
> Nothing to do
> [Vinny at Lab2 ~]$
Yes my mistake after I sent the email I noticed that you had already installed 
kde. So just make sure your user name is visible at the login screen and you 
should be able to choose kde plasmaworkspace from the drop down menu.
Peter


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