I did the stormix install of the latest Deb, and I told it to install both KDE and GNOME. It comes up in KDE and I can't figure out how to make the switch to GNOME. I thought I had to put something like "gnome-exec" in my xstart file, but I don't even see such a file in my home directory, just a bunch of Kde start up files.
I went to www.gnome.org, helix and www.linuxdoc.org. To my amazement there was no nitty-gritty details about how to do this. Mainly just install the package, and here's the end user manual. Also, I was surprised by the desktop environments. I've been working on unix for years, but mainly in emacs with a command shell and gdb, developing C code. Now I have this spiffy desktop with lots of windows-like utilities, which I have no use for. I can see its appeal to a window's end user, but I feel a level removed, like there is something going on in the background but I can't get to it. This is just an initial impression, I know it will go away as I use it more. - greg strockbine
