I am new to Linux, having only installed it on a hard drive on my PC this month. One thing that irks me a bit is having to do a reinstall or some other complex trick to install both GUI types.
On the 4.7 GB install disk, would it be hard to get both KDE and Gnome together in one install? That way, users could seamlessly switch between the 2 GUIs and keep their personal settings, without say, having to switch partitions or something else.
(Note, if there is a technical barrier to doing this, please enlighten me).
I actually do this all the time. All you have to do is choose which one to install by default. Then click on the software installation choice to modify it. If memory serves, in the left corner of the software selection screen choose to install the other.
For example, if you chose KDE as the default, simply choose to install Gnome on the software selection screen.
If you already have it installed, just start Yast and change the filter from “Search” to “Patterns” and select gnome.
After the install, to switch the desktop environment, just click on the button in the bottom left that says “Session Type” and choose which one to start on the login screen.
only technical barrier is that you posted to a forum which is for
talking about the forum itself…
no reinstall or “complex trick” is required for most anything
here…it is just in knowing how…have you yet found the
documentation for YaST?
both Gnome, KDE and other desktop environments are on the DVD…
if you have room on your hard drive and if you want to add Gnome just
open YaST (give root password when asked for it) > Software Management
(on the right) and flip the Filter (at the top) from “Search” to
“Patterns”, and scroll to the major heading of “Graphical
Environments” and click on GNOME Desktop Environment and GNOME Base
System, then click “Accept” down on the bottom right…
sit back and relax…it will ask for the DVD and if you are connected
to the net it will download any thing needing updating…
when done, you do not have to reboot (that is SO last century) or any
other “complex tricks” just log out of the session, then you will get
a log in screen…down in the bottom left click on “Sessions” and
then up will pop a list of all the DEs you have installed, and KDE
will be marked as the default, since you used it last…just click on
Gnome and then log in…and, magic…
to get back to KDE you do the same log out etc…
next time post to install boot logins or applications…
-=welcome=- nothing complex here…just different from what you might
we used to…
I’ll give it a shot. I did read the documentation for Yast.
It’s quite different from Windows I agree. Actually, after looking at other Linux distros, there seem to be unique things to each distro, Yast being one of them for OpenSUSE.
A little time consuming but completely worth it. Problem I was having before is I don’t get the full signal like my drivers aren’t installed completely for my wifi on my laptop so my internet connection is slow with GNOME. But when I switch over to KDE, I have no internet whatsoever. What’s the best way to solve this problem?