How Do I Switch to KDE from Gnome with Fedora 7?

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed Jul 11 16:13:18 UTC 2007


Claude Jones wrote:
> On Tue July 10 2007 19:04:18 Tom Browder wrote:
>> When I installed F7 I did so from DVD and the Gnome desktop
>> was loaded.  That was fine with me since I have always like
>> the look better.  However, xemacs is not working properly due
>> to something not working between it and metacity, and reports
>> are that the KDE desktop doesn't have the same problem.  So
>> when I looked for the login switcher I'm used to, no KDE!
>>
>> Now I've found that I could have installed the KDE desktop
>> through the Live CD, but how do I install it now?
>>
>> I've tried
>>
>>   yum list "*desktop*"
>>
>> and others but find nothing there.
>>
>> Is there a way to switch without going though another install?
>>
> Have you tried "Add/Remove Software"? I run KDE, but, that's a 
> Fedora package and should run the same under gnome - it should 
> offer you the option to install KDE on the opening screen
> 
> 

I also believe that there is still a "Desktop switching Tool" 
application that you can download.

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