Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-09 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 09:12:05AM +0100, Joe wrote: On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 20:22:55 -0400 Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: I see this mentioned a lot that Gnome-Shell won't run on hardware more than a few years old. This is patently false. I've run it on a laptop more than 7

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 06 April 2014 04:43:51 ray wrote: At logon, you can choose between any desktop environments and window managers you have installed, and usually there is also a 'last one used' entry. Joe Great, thank you. I can now switch. I was hoping to see a change. For

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-06 Thread Joe
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 20:22:55 -0400 Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: ray r...@aarden.us wrote: Gnome is referred to as a desktop environment, as it is much more than just a manager of windows, menus etc. KDE is the other heavyweight DE, there are two medium-weight DEs,

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-06 Thread Joe
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 20:43:51 -0700 (PDT) ray r...@aarden.us wrote: At logon, you can choose between any desktop environments and window managers you have installed, and usually there is also a 'last one used' entry. Joe Great, thank you. I can now switch. I was hoping to

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 05 April 2014 22:12:15 ray wrote: Which desktop manager are you using? Once we know, one of us will be able to tell you how to switch. I'm sure that you don't need to edit anything. I appologize as I am new to Linux I may need some help in the terminology. Please help me

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-06 Thread Klaus
On 06/04/14 12:26, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 05 April 2014 22:12:15 ray wrote: Which desktop manager are you using? I appologize as I am new to Linux I may need some help in the terminology. Please help me understand 'which desktop manager'. Yes. If you are running GNOME you have

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 06 April 2014 04:43:51 ray wrote: At logon, you can choose between any desktop environments and window managers you have installed, and usually there is also a 'last one used' entry. Joe Great, thank you. I can now switch. I was hoping to see a change. As has been

How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread ray
I have been running Gnome on Debian 7.4. I want to try KDE so I installed it. I can see new apps under Applications so it looks like it may have worked. But I don't know who to actual switch from one to the other. Is there a GUI app that I can click to switch between them? Or some shell

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 05 April 2014 17:05:36 ray wrote: I did find an article to edit the default desktop manager Which desktop manager are you using? Once we know, one of us will be able to tell you how to switch. I'm sure that you don't need to edit anything. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Joe
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 09:05:36 -0700 (PDT) ray r...@aarden.us wrote: I have been running Gnome on Debian 7.4. I want to try KDE so I installed it. I can see new apps under Applications so it looks like it may have worked. But I don't know who to actual switch from one to the other. Is

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread ray
Which desktop manager are you using? Once we know, one of us will be able to tell you how to switch. I'm sure that you don't need to edit anything. I appologize as I am new to Linux I may need some help in the terminology. Please help me understand 'which desktop manager'. When I said

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Joe
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 14:12:15 -0700 (PDT) ray r...@aarden.us wrote: Which desktop manager are you using? Once we know, one of us will be able to tell you how to switch. I'm sure that you don't need to edit anything. I appologize as I am new to Linux I may need some help in the

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Klaus
On 05/04/14 22:12, ray wrote: Which desktop manager are you using? Once we know, one of us will be able to tell you how to switch. I'm sure that you don't need to edit anything. I appologize as I am new to Linux I may need some help in the terminology. Please help me understand 'which

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 02:12:15PM -0700, ray wrote: Which desktop manager are you using? Once we know, one of us will be able to tell you how to switch. I'm sure that you don't need to edit anything. I appologize as I am new to Linux I may need some help in the terminology. Please

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Stephen Allen
ray r...@aarden.us wrote: Gnome is referred to as a desktop environment, as it is much more than just a manager of windows, menus etc. KDE is the other heavyweight DE, there are two medium-weight DEs, LXDE and Xfce4. There is also at least one fork of an older version of Gnome, as the

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread ray
At logon, you can choose between any desktop environments and window managers you have installed, and usually there is also a 'last one used' entry. Joe Great, thank you. I can now switch. I was hoping to see a change. For example, I understand the Gnome has the date and menu at

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 08:43:51PM -0700, ray wrote: Great, thank you. I can now switch. I was hoping to see a change. For example, I understand the Gnome has the date and menu at the top and KDE at the bottom of the screen. After switching to KDE and rebooting, I see a new log in window,