On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 09:05:36 -0700 (PDT) ray <r...@aarden.us> wrote: > I have been running Gnome on Debian 7.4. I want to try KDE so I > installed it. I can see new apps under Applications so it looks like > it may have worked. > > But I don't know who to actual switch from one to the other. Is > there a GUI app that I can click to switch between them? Or some > shell process? > > Searching, I have found many articles on how to install the package > but none on how to actually switch between them. I did find an > article to edit the default desktop manager but it was in the etc/x11 > folder which I don't have. >
The display manager at login is the place. There are several, I'm using kdm even though I don't have a full KDE installation, it suits me. Look in /etc/X11/default-display-manager to see which is used, it will probably be the DM of the last environment you installed. Probably the cleanest way to change this is 'dpkg-reconfigure <kdm, gdm3 or other>'. You should get a choice from the DMs installed. xdm should always be there, but it's a bit primitive for my taste, lightdm is another. Generally whenever you install a DM you are given this choice. At logon, you can choose between any desktop environments and window managers you have installed, and usually there is also a 'last one used' entry. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140405211603.6c5c2...@jretrading.com