Hi Terry, > Actually, instead of removing KDE 4.3, I logged back in to see if > anything worked. It does! Installing the XUbuntu desktop obviously > updated the right things, so in theory at least, I can just leave it > as it is.
Good. > Just a couple more questions. When Synaptic installed the XUbuntu > packages (I wouldn't actually call it lightweight by the way, it put > over 250 on ;-) ), it asked me which Window Manager I wanted to use, > offering kdm or gdm. Since I thought that I would be removing KDE, I > chose gdm. I assume that when I log into KDE it automatically picks > up the kdm Window Manager? How do I find out, or would it simply not > work? gdm and kdm are the Gnome and KDE versions of xdm, the X display manager. The thing that puts up the "login" box. They're not window managers. It seems Xubuntu is happy to use either gdm or kdm rather than coming up with yet another one. > The second question relates to updates. Now that I've reverted to the > standard Jaunty repository, will I still get them? Ah, so you didn't remove 4.3 but you did remove the PPA repo from your sources lists? No, I wouldn't have thought a minor bump in the Jaunty version of a package will show up as an update; your 4.3 package versions will look later than them. > I'm assuming that I won't see any updates to KDE until 9.10 brings in > 4.3 officially, in about 6 weeks time, but that everything else will > be OK. Any thoughts? Yeah, I'd have thought your, now orphaned, PPA KDE packages will sit their stagnating until you dist-upgrade to 9.10 at which point it'll hopefully move you onto the official versions. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-09-01 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
