Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:26:53PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote:
> On Thursday 05 April 2007 10:46, John L Fjellstad wrote:
> > Randy Patterson <tech@patterson-pcc.com> writes:
> > > I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had
> > > Sarge installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just
> > > did a clean install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new
> > > user I don't have a favorite windowing system that I prefer and
> > > was wondering if someone to point me to a good link that would
> > > describe the strengths and weaknesses or pros and cons of each
> > > system. KDE installed as default with Sarge and Etch so I
> > > assume they chose that for a reason and it is the only one I
> > > have used. I have looked but haven't been able to find a good
> > > comparison them.
> >
> > You're better off just installing all three and test them out. I
> > think they are pretty feature-equivalent these days.
>
> As I had stated previously I installed from the
> debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso image. If I take your suggestion,
> which sounds like a good one, when I boot will I be given a choice
> of which system to start or will I have to manually close KDE and
> start one of the others? Although compared to Windoze XP I am
> thrilled with KDE I do think I would like to take a look at the
> others ones.
>
> Thanks, Randy
There should be a click-able button called "Sessions". If you click it
KDM will present you with a group of sessions to start (KDE,
Failsafe*, Terminal), just pick the one you want. KDM is a smart
display manager so it's able to automatically pick up when you
install/uninstall window managers from your computer.
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