"Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@earthlink.net> writes: > In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:44:44 > -0500 John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> didst appear within my Magick > Viewing Screen and, being somewhat pleasantly supplicatory, did > polemicize thusly: > >> Change the default to KDE and an equal number of people will complain >> that it isn't Gnome (I use neither). Perhaps it could be made easier >> to switch, but I see no reason to change the default. Don't forget >> that many new users have never heard of KDE, Gnome, or a desktop >> manager. > > What a shame, too, because using various WMs is such a treat. > > So,here's the reason for the subject change; why not have an easier way > to switch between DEs such as is found in most WMs? It's dead easy > to switch between WMs because there is a menu entry for it. > For KDE and GNOME /not/ to have that availability looks suspiciously > like an attempt to tie-in new users to one or the other. Both gdm and kdm allow one to select another session type when you log in. You can't change it while running, like other WMs, however. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please sign and encrypt your mail.
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