How do you get to KDE 3/KDE4 session button?

English Install/Boot/Login
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I’ve been happily running KDE 3 on my Opensuse 11 64 bit system. I wanted to
see for myself how ready the KDE 4 stuff is. I’ve installled KDE4 as well
and want to be able to select the KDE 4 desktop, but can’t figure out how
to access it. How do you actually select a session? The button on the top
of the screen shows up, but how do you actually select anything?

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The button on the top
of the screen shows up, but how do you actually select anything?

What??

Have you disabled auto login via Yast - Security and Users?? So you get the green login screen to enter your username and password?

Selection of kde4 session is on the lower left of the login screen

3

Thanks. After I changed that it worked OK. It does seem a design flaw that you can’t change session unless you have to login, though. One thing has nothing to do with the other.:wink:

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Au contraire. Because Linux is a true multi-user OS, with the logon you initialize a new desktop environment for that user/session. Being kept entirely distinct is what enables the multi-user security model. You can in fact have simultaneous multiple sessions open for different users or for the same user (up to the number of getty’s configured, by default 6 in openSUSE - Windows user-switching is somewhat analogous, but it is not true multi-user.)