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Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce



On Saturday 07 April 2007 09:11, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > 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.

Yes, I did find that and used it now. But, I did an install of the Gnome core;

aptitude install gnome-core

The Gnome option doesn't appear under the "Session Type" option. I assume that 
I haven't installed all the packages needed for Gnome. What additional 
packages do I need?

Thanks
Randy



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