Interchanging GNOME and KDE

Mario St-Gelais legrimpeur at sympatico.ca
Wed Mar 3 16:08:23 UTC 2004


roger2 wrote:

> On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 21:14:20 +0530, Kaustubh Ghosh 
> <meetkaustubhghosh at vsnl.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Well,I recently upgraded to Fedora Core 1 from  RedHat Linux 8.
>> Now,I find I cannot interchange between GNOME and KDE from
>> the graphical boot  screen.I can change to Failsafe though.Whatever
>> else I choose everything works fine except I logon only to the default
>> session.I can change the default session though from inside.
>>
>> However,from text mode the 'switchdesk' utility works perfectly 
>> without any
>> problem.
>>
>> I also had 'xpde' as a alternative desktop but after upgrade I cannot
>> find it as an option at the boot screen even though my previous
>> configurations remains intact.Also now my 'kword' doesnot run and I 
>> am logged
>> out if I try to run 'xine'.
>>
>> Can I get any help?
>>
>> My computer is generally used for desktop work.
>>
> Hi I'm not at a Fedora machine to check but you should find the switch 
> desk app under one of the menus.
> I might be in the extra items menu.
> But if I remember right you make your change log out and then log in 
> again and it changed.
> I used it to change from Gnome to KDE just after I installed fedora.
> Regards Roger
>
>
>
Roger is right.  On my machine, it is under System Setting --> More 
system Setting -- > Desktop Switching Tool

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