Re: getting a KDE desktop after install, not Gnome
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Pollywog wrote:
| I apologize if this post is a duplicate, I did not see it posted after
I sent
| it the first time.
|
| I installed Debian Sarge using a Netinstall ISO and I had one problem
when it
| was all done. It is difficult to do a manual package selection, so I
just
| had the installer install the system, I chose "Desktop" from the list
| presented by the installer. When the session manager appeared, it was
gdm,
| so I went to a console and first stopped gdm and then removed (purged)
the
| gdm package, then installed kdm. I logged in but much to my surprise,
I did
| not get KDE but got a Gnome desktop. I removed Nautilus but continued
| getting a Nautilus desktop. In order to get a KDE desktop, I had to
remove a
| slew of Gnome packages, not just the "Nautilus" packages.
|
| What is the correct way of dealing with this? Is the only way to do
this a
| manual install (selecting all packages to be installed)?
|
"update-alternatives --config x-session-manager" as root will allow you
to set the system default.
You should also be able to select the session type in kdm. You can run
any window manager/environment from either kdm or gdm.
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