On Wednesday 02 July 2003 05:12, Dan Zlotnikov wrote: > This is the most bizarre thing that's happened yet. I tried startkde from > a text-term and it died. Trying to switch to the KDE wm from inside GNOME > tended to hang up the x-session. Then, all of a sudden (must've been some > bloody slow process in the background), KDE goes active on me. I'm not > seeing any GNOME processes through ps -aux, it's all KDE now. > > Problem: Any attempt to access the drive is exceedingly slow. I'm talking > about three minutes to load the /home filelist in Konqueror sort of slow. > Something isn't working right, and I'll be damned if I knew what. > > Dan
Well, I'm back with Gnome now, but a number of things seem to be not working... for example, right-click on the desktop doesn't bring up a menu. And a number of menu programs don't launch. So maybe KDE and Gnome interfere with some of each other's settings. There *used* to be, in RedHat 7.2 or thereabouts, a 'Desktop switcher' app. It required a restart of X for it to take effect. But I can't seem to find it in Debian 3.0. cr > On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, cr wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 July 2003 08:51, Dan Zlotnikov wrote: > > > First of all, D'oh! 2.4.19, of course. Typoed. > > > > > > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > > > I don't run either KDE or Gnome here, so I can help only a little > > > > with the DEbian parts. > > > > > > > > Assuming you are using the apt-* tools for package management, you > > > > probably want to apt-get install kdebase . (At least this is right > > > > for Sid; Woody is probably the same in this respect.) If its > > > > installer is any good, it will either ask appropriate questions to > > > > get you to replace Gnome with KDE, or it will do so without asking > > > > (less likely but possible). Once the base stuff is installed, you'll > > > > need to install appropriate specific > > > > applications for kde. > > > > For what it's worth, I installed kdebase a week or so ago. And bingo!, > > without so much as asking me, KDE took over. Next time I logged in my > > screen looked like a jukebox. (Sorry to any who *like* KDE's default > > settings :). > > > > (About two weeks ago I installed Debian 3.0, and somehow (blame Debian's > > installer! :) kdebase got missed out. I had all the other KDE apps > > like Kmail etc, though I 'always' run Gnome as a desktop. But I noticed > > that Kaddressbook was missing, so I installed kdebase (using kpackage as > > the installer). > > > > I guess, if you're running Gnome, you may find Gnome-apt will do it, > > though I've never tried it. Anyway, there are a number of associated > > KDE packages which you might want to install. I would hope Gnome-apt > > would prompt for or let you search for any such packages. > > > > The way to swap from one to the other, I found, is to make > > /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager a symlink to either /usr/bin/kde2 or > > /usr/bin/gnome-session. > > > > ln -s /usr/bin/gnome-session /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager > > > > Well, it worked for me anyway. > > > > cr > > ... very much a Debian newbie > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" > > in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
