RTF wrote: > James Knott wrote: >> RTF wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have the OpenSuse 10.2 DVD from Linux Format magazine. I was going >>> to install it in a dual-boot arrangement with XP. However, based on >>> what I have read, during the installation, it asks you to choose your >>> desktop (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, or whatever). While I don't have any >>> distribution installed at present, previous installations allowed you >>> to choose the desktop you wanted to use when you booted. >>> Is there a way to install all available desktops/windows managers and >>> then choose the one you want to use when you boot >>> /*You can install as many desktops as you wish, after the install*/ >>> and then >> chose the one you wish to use, when you log in. In fact, you can log in >> to more than once and have a different desktop on each one at the same >> time. >> >> >> >> > Can you let me know how to do that (bolded and italicized above). I > attempted to install Suse 10.2 again tonight and it makes you select > which desktop you want to install...Gnome, KDE or other. It does not > give you a choice of installing all in order to choose which one you > want to use at boot up.. :(
Sure it does, you just have to pay attention - You can install multiple desktop environments during the initial OS install, or just as easily install them afterwards via the yast software management GUI. It's all very straightforward and the choice is yours. If you wish to install more than one desktop environment during the initial OS install, just enable the detailed package selection, and then check both gnome and kde, and search for others such as xfce, icewm, whatever, and select them all. I've never had any problem selecting from among e.g. gnome, kde, xfce, e17, icewm, blackbox, etc etc at login time. BTW you do *not* need to decide a GUI at boot, that's something you decide when you are loggin in. After all, linux being a multi-user OS, how could different users be logged into their wm of choice, if they had to reboot the server to pick a desktop environment? Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
