Newbie Q: how to switch off KDE and start Gnome?
Hello! I am first time user in SuSE doing some application portability testing (.NET - Mono). I need to switch to Gnome environment but after doing some searches in SuSE documentation and lists ended up with nothing precise. I would appreciate some little help in that matter. Cheers Jacek
On Thursday 24 June 2004 23.48, Jacek Blaszczynski wrote:
Hello!
I am first time user in SuSE doing some application portability testing (.NET - Mono). I need to switch to Gnome environment but after doing some searches in SuSE documentation and lists ended up with nothing precise.
I would appreciate some little help in that matter.
In YaST, make sure gnome is installed (yast's package manager, selections, left hand side), then log out of KDE, selecting "end current session" when you do. That will take you to the login manager, where you can select your desktop environment in the menu If you want to disable the automatic login so you always get the login manager, do that in KDE's control center, system administration->login manager. Be sure to click "administrator mode" so you can edit it
Found Answer myself - menu provides appriopriate choice at graphical user login dialog! Unfortunately after starting Gnome session I get some icons on desktop, no fonts and error dialog with unreadable message! Can not switch to any other runlevel or start console/terminal or even go through soft reboot - machine is suspended with full DoS in place. Whats wrong this time? All KDE+Gnome apps and libs are installed, including all develeopment versions, fonts as well, full update was performed (except for kernel). I do run SUSE 9.1 with expert, development, KDE, Gnome, number theoretic libs and many other scientific libs included. System runs as a guest OS in VMware v4.5.2 running on WinXP SP1 Pro fully patched. Any ideas? Jacek -----Original Message----- From: Jacek Blaszczynski [mailto:jacek.blaszczynski@acn.waw.pl] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:49 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Newbie Q: how to switch off KDE and start Gnome? Hello! I am first time user in SuSE doing some application portability testing (.NET - Mono). I need to switch to Gnome environment but after doing some searches in SuSE documentation and lists ended up with nothing precise. I would appreciate some little help in that matter. Cheers Jacek
That has happened to me, and I believe that you should kill X, become superuser, and run fc-cache. I am not so certain it is fc-cache but it is some program having to do with fonts. If it were me I would wait until someone who _really_ knows answers, but if you are brave you might try the above. Henry Harpending On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:11:35AM +0200, Jacek Blaszczynski wrote:
Found Answer myself - menu provides appriopriate choice at graphical user login dialog!
Unfortunately after starting Gnome session I get some icons on desktop, no fonts and error dialog with unreadable message! Can not switch to any other runlevel or start console/terminal or even go through soft reboot - machine is suspended with full DoS in place. Whats wrong this time? All KDE+Gnome apps and libs are installed, including all develeopment versions, fonts as well, full update was performed (except for kernel). I do run SUSE 9.1 with expert, development, KDE, Gnome, number theoretic libs and many other scientific libs included. System runs as a guest OS in VMware v4.5.2 running on WinXP SP1 Pro fully patched.
Any ideas?
Jacek
-----Original Message----- From: Jacek Blaszczynski [mailto:jacek.blaszczynski@acn.waw.pl] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:49 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Newbie Q: how to switch off KDE and start Gnome?
Hello!
I am first time user in SuSE doing some application portability testing (.NET - Mono). I need to switch to Gnome environment but after doing some searches in SuSE documentation and lists ended up with nothing precise.
I would appreciate some little help in that matter.
Cheers
Jacek
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Hello! Thanks folks for all replies - it is really good to know that SUSE community may provide good and fast support. Problem currently is the inability to use Gnome after switching to it and not to confuse topics I will start separate thread on it. Jacek -----Original Message----- From: Henry Harpending [mailto:harpend@xmission.com] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 1:24 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Newbie Q: how to switch off KDE and start Gnome? That has happened to me, and I believe that you should kill X, become superuser, and run fc-cache. I am not so certain it is fc-cache but it is some program having to do with fonts. If it were me I would wait until someone who _really_ knows answers, but if you are brave you might try the above. Henry Harpending On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:11:35AM +0200, Jacek Blaszczynski wrote:
Found Answer myself - menu provides appriopriate choice at graphical user login dialog!
Unfortunately after starting Gnome session I get some icons on desktop, no fonts and error dialog with unreadable message! Can not switch to any other runlevel or start console/terminal or even go through soft reboot - machine is suspended with full DoS in place. Whats wrong this time? All KDE+Gnome apps and libs are installed, including all develeopment versions, fonts as well, full update was performed (except for kernel). I do run SUSE 9.1 with expert, development, KDE, Gnome, number theoretic libs and many other scientific libs included. System runs as a guest OS in VMware v4.5.2 running on WinXP SP1 Pro fully patched.
Any ideas?
Jacek
-----Original Message----- From: Jacek Blaszczynski [mailto:jacek.blaszczynski@acn.waw.pl] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:49 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Newbie Q: how to switch off KDE and start Gnome?
Hello!
I am first time user in SuSE doing some application portability testing (.NET - Mono). I need to switch to Gnome environment but after doing some searches in SuSE documentation and lists ended up with nothing precise.
I would appreciate some little help in that matter.
Cheers
Jacek
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Anders Johansson
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Henry Harpending
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Jacek Blaszczynski