This is the most bizarre thing that's happened yet. I tried startkde from a text-term and it died. Trying to switch to the KDE wm from inside GNOME tended to hang up the x-session. Then, all of a sudden (must've been some bloody slow process in the background), KDE goes active on me. I'm not seeing any GNOME processes through ps -aux, it's all KDE now.
Problem: Any attempt to access the drive is exceedingly slow. I'm talking about three minutes to load the /home filelist in Konqueror sort of slow. Something isn't working right, and I'll be damned if I knew what. Dan On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, cr wrote: > On Tuesday 01 July 2003 08:51, Dan Zlotnikov wrote: > > First of all, D'oh! 2.4.19, of course. Typoed. > > > > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > > I don't run either KDE or Gnome here, so I can help only a little with > > > the DEbian parts. > > > > > > Assuming you are using the apt-* tools for package management, you > > > probably want to apt-get install kdebase . (At least this is right for > > > Sid; Woody is probably the same in this respect.) If its installer is any > > > good, it will either ask appropriate questions to get you to replace > > > Gnome with KDE, or it will do so without asking (less likely but > > > possible). Once the base stuff is installed, you'll need to install > > > appropriate specific > > > applications for kde. > > For what it's worth, I installed kdebase a week or so ago. And bingo!, > without so much as asking me, KDE took over. Next time I logged in my > screen looked like a jukebox. (Sorry to any who *like* KDE's default > settings :). > > (About two weeks ago I installed Debian 3.0, and somehow (blame Debian's > installer! :) kdebase got missed out. I had all the other KDE apps like > Kmail etc, though I 'always' run Gnome as a desktop. But I noticed that > Kaddressbook was missing, so I installed kdebase (using kpackage as the > installer). > > I guess, if you're running Gnome, you may find Gnome-apt will do it, though > I've never tried it. Anyway, there are a number of associated KDE packages > which you might want to install. I would hope Gnome-apt would prompt for or > let you search for any such packages. > > The way to swap from one to the other, I found, is to make > /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager a symlink to either /usr/bin/kde2 or > /usr/bin/gnome-session. > > ln -s /usr/bin/gnome-session /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager > > Well, it worked for me anyway. > > cr > ... very much a Debian newbie > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
